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Igneous
Metamorphic
Sedimentary
Vocabulary
100
What is the series of processes that change one type of rock into another?
What is The rock cycle
100
What size crystals do Intrusive Igneous rocks have?
What is large
100
The temperature needs to change a rock to a metamorphic rock depends on the composition of the ___________ ___________.
What is parent rock
100
What two things can change the physical or chemical properties of rock?
What is water, air
100
What is molten rock that erupts on Earth’s surface?
What is lava
200
What is one process involved in the rock cycle?
What is weathering, compaction, erosion
200
What do geologists use to identify a rock's composition when minerals are hard to identify?
What is color
200
Metamorphic rocks form when rocks are exposed to high _______________ and ______________.
What is temperature and pressure.
200
What are the broken pieces and fragments caled?
What is clasts
200
What are natural, solid mixture of minerals or particles?
What is rocks
300
What is sedimentary rock made of clasts of minerals or rock fragments called?
What is clastic rock.
300
What kind of rocks have a fine-grained texture from rapid cooling?
What is extrusive
300
What are metamorphic rocks that contain distinct layers with parallel, flat or elongated minerals called?
What is foliated rocks
300
What is the process in which minerals dissolved in water crystallize?
What is cementation.
300
What is rock material that is broken down into smaller pieces or dissolved in water as rocks erode?
What is sediment
400
What kind of rock has a glassy texture that forms when lava cools quickly on Earth's surface?
What is obsidian.
400
What is the molten material deep inside Earth which igneous rocks form from?
What is magma
400
What are metamorphic rocks that have mineral grains with a random, interlocking texture called?
What is non-foliated rocks
400
What is the process where weight from the layers of sediment forces out fluids and decreases space between grains?
What is compaction.
400
What is the grain size and the way grains fit together in a rock?
What is texture
500
Define plastic deformation.
What is permanent change in rock shape caused by bending and folding.
500
Give two characteristics that can be used to identify intrusive igneous rock.
What is a coarse-grained texture and a high silica content.
500
What is the classification of metamorphic rocks based on?
What is texture, and mineral composition
500
What are the three types of sedimentary rocks?
What is clastic, chemical, and biochemical.
500
What is formation of metamorphic rock that are hundreds of square kilometers in size?
What is regional metamorphism.