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Igneous Rocks
Sedimentary Rocks
Metamorphic Rocks
Rock facts
Erosion's agents
100
This type of rock has a course grained texture and has a high silica content.
What is Granite?
100
Occurs when minerals precipitate out of groundwater.
What is cementation by minerals?
100
Has a strong segregation of silicate minerals and a banded texture
What is Gneiss?
100
The first step in the rock cycle
What is magma?
100
Most common form of erosion.
What is Running water?
200
This rock is mafic and contains very dark silicate minerals
What is Basalt?
200
The parent rock of marble
What is limestone
200
The rock formed by sediments weathered of other rocks
What is Sedimentary Rock?
200
What must happen before erosion takes place
What is weathering?
300
This type of texture is when magma has a very fast rate of cooling
What is Glassy?
300
Most abundant sedimentary rock.
What is Shale?
300
Takes place where preexisting rock is subjected to temperatures and pressures unlike those in which it formed.
What is Metamorphism?
300
Magma that is spread on earths surface that hardens and turns into igneous rock
What is Lava?
300
these two forces need to work together to help form sedimentary rocks
What is compaction and cementation?
400
Process whereby some minerals melt at low temperatures while others remain solid.
What is Partial melting?
400
Traces or remains of prehistoric life found in sedimentary rocks.
What is Fossils?
400
The third metamorphic agent
What is Hydrothermal Solutions?
400
The type of texture when rocks cool slowly
What is very course grained?
500
Process wherein different minerals form at different temperatures.
What is Fractional Crystallization?
500
When sediments form rocks from compaction and cementation.
What is Lithification?
500
Concentrations of desirable materials are produced by this.
What is Igneous processes?
500
When a rock has a texture that looks glittery or shinny.
What is Shistosity?
500
What materials are weathered, eroded, deposited, compacted, and cemented to make a certain form of rocks
What is sediments?