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Rocks
Sedimentary Rocks
Igneous Rocks
Metamorphic Rock
Vocabulary Words
100
Early humans used rocks as
What is tools?
100
Wind, water, sunlight, ice and gravity all cause rock to physically weather into ______.
What is fragments?
100
How many ways can Igneous rock form?
What is 3?
100
______ or mineral composition of a rock can change when its surroundings change
What is texture?
100
The movement of rock toward the surface of the Earth.
What is uplift?
200
Rocks have been used for centuries in the making of (3)
What is buildings, roads and monuments?
200
Through the process of erosion these fragments called _____ are moved from one place to another
What is sediment?
200
Heat, Release of pressure and the composition of the rock changes
What is 3 ways an igneous rock changes?
200
One way rock can undergo metamorphism is by being heated by nearby magma
What is Contact metamorphism?
200
Igneous rock formed on the surface of the Earth
What is extrusive igneous rock?
300
Sediment is formed during the occurence of what event?
What is weathering?
300
______ forms without the heat and pressure involved in the formation of igneous and metamorphic rock
What is sedimentary rock?
300
The ______ of the igneous rock helps to determine the composition.
What is color?
300
The greatest change comes from when the magma comes in direct _______ with the surrounding rock
What is contact?
300
The layers of sedimentary rock
What is Strata?
400
Erosion is the process by which wind, water and gravity _______ sediment.
What is transport?
400
_______ _________ _________ is formed by fragments of other rocks being cemented together by a mineral such as calcite or quartz
What is clastic sedimentary rock?
400
The longer it takes for the magma to cool the ____________ the crystals will become.
What is larger?
400
If the temperature or pressure of the new environment is different than the original environment the rock formed then ___________ takes place
What is metamorphism?
400
The make up of a rock.
What is Composition?
500
___________ is the process that occurs after erosion takes place.
What is deposition?
500
_____ _______ _______ is formed from the remains of living organisms.
What is organic sedimentary rock?
500
Igneous rock that forms below the Earth's surface.
What is intrusive igneous rock
500
_________ Rock has a texture in which the mineral gains are not arranged in planes or bands
What is nonfoliated?
500
The continuous making of rocks through the process of weathering, erosion, and deposition.
What is rock cycle?