Rock Vocab
What is a rock?
Rocks that are formed when lava or magma cools and crystallizes
What are Igneous Rocks?
Rocks formed by deposition of material at Earth's surface and within bodies of water
What are sedimentary rocks?
Diagram that describes how rocks are created, distributed, and then melted to start anew
What is the Rock Cycle?
Class you are in right now
What is Earth Science?
Study of Rocks
What is Petrology?
Igneous rocks originate from here
What is the mantle
Rocks formed from broken bits and pieces of other existing rocks that settle out of water or air
What are clastic rocks?
Shape of Bowen Reaction Series
What is a Y Graph?
Classroom number
What is 201?
Patrick Star lives under
What is a rock?
Most abundant element found in Igneous rock
What is silica
Broken bits and pieces
What are sediments?
What is the Bowen Reaction Series?
Chapter 5 and 6 deal with
What is Rocks
Basic Rock groups
What is Igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic
Vein deposits of extremely large minerals that can contain rare ores such as lithium and beryllium
What is Pegmatite?
3 main groups of sedimentary rock
What are clastic, chemical, and organic sedimentary rocks?
left side of Bowen Reaction series
What are iron rich minerals?
Study Guide was due when
What is Wednesday(today)
Rocks are classified by
What is formation and composition of magma?
Rare, ultramafic rocks that can contain diamonds and other minerals formed under very high pressure
What are Kimberlites?
Occurs after sediments have been deposited and their weight squeezes particles together
What is compaction?
Right side of Bowen Reaction series
What is calcium rich to sodium rich?
Friday is the date of
What is 2nd Block Midterm?