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Made from Lava
What is Igneous Rocks
Made from grains deposited by water or wind
what is Sedimentary rocks
Changed by partial melting, high pressure, or chemistry?
what are Metamorphic Rocks
A plant or animal frozen in time
What is a fossil
Movement of continents
What is plate tectonics
A Plutonic rock cooled below ground?
what is Granite
Loose small grains of rock is called
What is common Sand
recrystallized sandstone, with glassy or vitreous look is what type of rock?
What is quartzite
The study of the gradual movement of continents
What is plate tectonics
The term is used to describe Noah's 40 days/nights of rain, massive flooding, meteorite impacts, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions.
What is the Eruptive Phase (Genesis 7)
Quantity determines "stickier" lava.
What is Silicon
Calcium carbonate added to sedimentary rock is called?
What is Limestone
Approximately 30 miles thick on continents and 4 miles thick under the oceans.
What is the earth's crust.
Violent shifts or buckling of a tectonic plate
What is an earthquake
A curve or bend in a layer of rock is called a ___________.
what is a fold
A type of rock with 41 to 52% Silicon dioxide is called?
What is Basalt
Sedimentary rock, calcium carbonate and magnesium together create?
What is dolomite
Made from heat, extreme high pressure and coal
What is a diamond
When Earth's oceanic crust dives beneath the continental plate.
What is subduction
Moved large stones thousands of miles, sheared granite rocks and scoured the sides of mountains, created moraines and kettle lakes.
What is a Glacier?
A rock made of one part silicon dioxide and two parts oxygen is called?
what is Quartz
A mix of quartz, feldspar, biotite mica, black hornblende and minerals is what type of rock?
What is Granite
The name of the process mountains are subjected to by moisture freezing and thawing, wind, and water erosion.
What is weathering
A crack between to land masses sliding past each other.
What is a Fault.
This term describes intermittent sequences of periodic deposits of particles of different sizes, densities, and shapes by water.
What is sedimentary layering.