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This category blows
He said she sed
This is a gneiss category
Cat facts
100
A quick cooling rate results in this size of crystals
What is finely grained?
100
This volcano is relatively small and composed of volcanic cinders
What is a scoria cone?
100
These are the two main processes by which sediment is produced
What is physical and chemical weathering
100
These are three forms of differential stress
What is compression, tension, shear?
100
This category 5 hurricane was the eleventh named storm and fifth hurricane of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season
What is Hurricane Katrina?
200
This is a volcanic rock texture characterized by a rock being pitted with many cavities (known as vesicles) at its surface and inside, indicating that the melt had abundant gas.
What is vesicular?
200
This volcano is broad and low, and is composed of basaltic lava flows.
What is a shield volcano?
200
This is the size range of clasts in sediment
What is sorting?
200
This is the protolith of marble
What is limestone
200
This is a substance that increases the rate of a chemical reaction without itself undergoing any permanent chemical change.
What is a catalyst?
300
This texture indicates that the rock cooled slowly and then cooled quickly
What is porphyritic?
300
These types of rocks are most common in a composite volcano
What is felsic and intermediate lava flows and tephra?
300
Name two common cements in sedimentary rocks
What is calcite, silica, iron oxide or clay?
300
This is any planar fabric present in metamorphic rocks
What is foliation?
300
This word describes a a large-scale and violent event in the natural world, or a sudden violent upheaval, especially in a political or social context.
What is a cataclysm?
400
Name three things that affect the viscosity of magma
What is pressure, temperature, composition, crystal content?
400
This is another word for a volcanic mudflow, common on the slopes of composite volcanoes
What is a lahar?
400
This term describes the process of loose sediment hardening into sedimentary rock
What is lithifies?
400
Normal is one type of faulting. These are the other two
What is reverse and strike-slip or left/right lateral?
400
Yusuf Islam is a British singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, humanitarian, and education philanthropist is better known as this former stage name
Who is Cat Stevens?
500
This term (startin with the letter P) describes when an igneous rock has large crystals that are easily visible
What is phaneritic?
500
Within ten years, this is when Pompeii was destroyed
What is 79AD?
500
This refers to processes and sediment of streams and rivers
What is Fluvial?
500
This is a metamorphic rock formed by the contact between mudstone / shale, or other clay-rich rock, and a hot igneous body via contact metamorphism
What is a hornfel?
500
This wild cat found in Africa is a slender, medium-sized cat that stands 54–62 cm at the shoulder and weighs 9–18 kg, characterised by a small head, large ears, a golden-yellow to buff coat spotted and striped with black, and a short, black-tipped tail
What is a Serval?