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Igneous Rocks
Metamorphic Rocks
Rock Cycle
Sedimentary Rocks
Vocabulary
100
Magma cools slowly below Earth's surface forming large crystals causeing this rock to form.
What is an intrusive igneous rock?
100
Metamorphic rocks are classified as this kind of metamorphic rocks when the layers are alternating between dark and light.
What is a foliated metamorphic rock?
100
This tectonic process forces rocks onto Earth's system.
What is uplift?
100
This process changes sedimentary rocks into sediment.
What is weathering and erosion?
100
The grain size and the way grains fit together in a rock is this kind of rock characteristic.
What is texture?
200
Texture and composition.
What are igneous rock characteristics?
200
The rock that changes during metamorphism is called this rock.
What is the parent rock?
200
This tectonic force changes a metamorphic rock into an igneous rock.
What is melting?
200
This type of sedimentary rock is coarse-grained with angular fragments.
What is a breccia sedimentary rock?
200
Metamorphic rocks that have mineral grains with random interlocking texture.
What are nonfoliated rocks?
300
Light colored minerals such as quartz and feldspar contain greater amounts of this content.
What is silica content?
300
Gneiss is this kind of metamorphic rock.
What is a foliated metamorphic rock?
300
Sedimentary rocks are changed into sediments by this force.
What is weathering and erosion?
300
Sedimentary rocks that have formed from the remains of once-living animals are called this certain kind of sedimentary rock.
What is a biochemical sedimentary rock?
300
The formation of metamorphic rock bodies that are hundreds of square kilometers in size.
What is regional metamorphism?
400
This igneous rock forms when lava cools too quickly for crystals to form.
What is volcanic glass?
400
Using magma to turn existing rock into metamorphic rock best describes this kind of metamorphism.
What is contact metamorphism?
400
A mixture of minerals, organic matter, volcanic glass, or other materials always form this.
What is a rock?
400
The rock cycle can change the sedimentary rock limestone into this type of rock through metamorphism.
What is marble?
400
The weight from the layers of sediment forces out fluids and decreases the space between grains during this process.
What is compaction?
500
Granite, pumice, basalt, and rhyolite are all examples of this type of igneous rock.
What is extrusive igneous rock?
500
Metamorphic rocks form her.
What is deep within Earth's crust?
500
When metamorphic rocks melt and turn into magma, cooling and crystallization for this type of rock.
What is an igneous rock?
500
Limestone is this type of sedimentary rock.
What is a chemical sedimentary rock?
500
The permanent change in shape by bending and folding is called this kind of deformation.
What is plastic deformation?