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Rocks and Forces
Sedimentary Rocks
Igneous Rocks
Metamorphic Rocks
Vocadulary
100
Obsidian is a (blank) rock.
What is Igneous?
100
A force that changes rocks into sediment.
What is Weathering and Erosion?
100
The material that cools to form igneous rocks.
What is Molten rock? (magma or lava)
100
Under Extreme Pressure and Heat.
How do Metamorphic Rocks Form?
100
The broken pieces and fragments of rocks.
What are Clasts?
200
A force that pushes rocks and sediment onto earths surface.
What is uplift?
200
The process that glues together grains
What is Cementation?
200
Volcanic glass forms when (blank) cools to quickly to form crystals.
What is Lava?
200
The type of metamorphic rock with no apparent fold lines
What is nonfoliated metamorphic rocks?
200
Molten rocks in the Earth
What is magma?
300
A rock is always (blank)
What is a mixture of minerals, organic matter, volcanic glass, or other materials?
300
The process in which the weight of the sediment forces out fluids and decreases the space between grains.
What is Compaction?
300
The igneous rock that cools slowly to form crystals
What are Intrusive igneous rocks?
300
(blank) occurs when hundreds of square kilometers of rocks form.
What is regional metamorphism?
300
Lava that cools to quickly to form crystals.
What is Volcanic Glass?
400
A Biochemical Rock With Fossils in it that usually forms under the sea.
What is Fossiliferous Limestone?
400
Rock Salt is (blank) rock.
What is Chemical Sedimentary?
400
(Blank) Is an igneous rock with holes in it that formed from lava cooling with gas escaping from the lava Leaving it with holes.
What is Pumice?
400
The type of metamorphic rock that forms from granite under extreme heat and pressure
What is gneiss?
400
Rocks that form when minerals crystallize directly from water.
What are Biochemical Rocks?
500
Studying a rocks (blank) and (blank) can help scientists determine which type of rock it is.
What is Texture and Composition?
500
The ancient rock formed from the remains of dead plants over the millions of years that formed a rock that is sometimes called "Ancient Sunlight'
What is coal?
500
The type of igneous rock that if you slice thin enough it becomes transparent.
What is volcanic glass?
500
The metamorphic rock with lines going through it.
What are Foliated metamorphic rocks?
500
The Bending and Folding of Rocks WITHOUT melting.
What is Plastic Deformation?