The Rock Cycle
The stage that all rocks may return to with enough heat.
What is magma?
What molten rock becomes when it reaches the earth's surface?
What is lava?
These types of igneous rocks form under the earth's surface.
What are intrusive igneous rocks?
According to your book, this clastic sediment is the largest grain.
What is gravel?
Which type of metamorphism happens near magma and is said to act as an oven that "bakes" the rocks.
Coal, petroleum, and natural gas are all this kind of energy resource.
What is a fossil fuel?
These minerals make up Felsic rocks.
What are feldspar and silica/quartz?
The geological process in which earthen materials are worn away and transported by natural forces such as wind or water.
What is erosion?
All rocks are made up of these.
What are minerals?
The cooling and solidification of magma.
What is crystallization?
This kind of sedimentary rock is formed from minerals or rock fragments eroded from previously existing rocks.
What is clastic?
Because of the lack of aluminum, potassium, magnesium and iron, quartz can only metamorphosize into this rock.
What is quartzite?
One disadvantage of using fossil fuels for energy.
What is "fossil fuels are non-renewable"?
What is "burning fossil fuels causes air pollution"?
What is effusive?
This term refers to the process by which sediments, particles, and organic material are transported and settle in a new location, often in water bodies such as rivers, lakes, and oceans.
What is deposition?
The 3 classifications/groups of rocks.
What are Igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic.
Two reasons that crystals may grow larger during the crystallization process.
What is slower cooling of molten rock and open space for the crystals to grow?
The processes that change loose sediments into sedimentary rocks.
What are compaction and cementation?
This happens to the grains in shale, which consequently case the texture to become more rough over time as it metamorphosizes to quartz, feldspar, or amphibole.
What is the grains gradually get larger?
The source rock that contains high levels of organic matter that petroleum and natural gas often develop from.
What is black shale?
This type of organic sedimentary rock is formed by the compaction and hardening of decayed plant material.
What is coal?
The process of breaking down rocks and minerals into smaller fragments through mechanical forces, without changing their chemical composition.
What is weathering?
This type of rock is formed through extreme heat and pressure.
What is metamorphic?
The property used to identify igneous rocks based on the grain size of its crystals.
What is texture?
This is the rock name of the smallest grain of clastic sediment.
What is shale?
This is the main cause of regional metamorphism due to the formation of mountain ranges deep underground.
What is lateral pressure?
What might be a limitation when it comes to wind-powered turbines?
What is there may not be wind to generate electricity?
This/these classification of rock/s can be transformed into metamorphic rocks.
What are igneous and sedimentary?
Although metamorphic rocks can form different metamorphic rocks through more intense heat and pressure.
The stage in the rock cycle in which all forms of rocks may become due to weathering.
What is sediment?
A natural, solid mixture of one or more types of mineral grains.
What is a rock?
The property used to identify igneous rocks based on the chemical elements and minerals a rock is made of.
What is composition?
What is limestone?
The process that is caused by intense lateral pressure making flat mineral grains parallel to each other resulting in new layers.
What is foliation?
This is an example of an alternative energy biomass source?
What is wood, burnable plants such as corn and sugar can, and dried animal dung?
What is Limestone?