vocabulary 1
vocabulary 2
vocabulary 3
rocks review
name that rock
100
melted rock in the earth : lava or magma
What is magma
100
a clastic rock made up of mud and clay : shale or marble
What is shale
100
a sedimentary rock , clastic rock made up of rounded pebbles cemented together: conglomerate or coal
What is conglomerate
100
what two things get squeezed out of the bottom layers of rocks to from sedimentary rocks: heat and pressure or water and air
What are water and air
100
two types of clastic rocks are : shale and conglomerate or marble and gneiss
What is shale and conglomerate
200
these rocks from when minerals cool or harden: metamorphic rock or igneous
What are igneous rocks
200
this changes minerals chemically inside the earth : heat or pressure
What is heat
200
metamorphic rocks that are arranged in bands : foliated or clastic
What is foliated
200
true or false: only magma can form igneous rocks
What is true
200
two examples of metamorphic rock are: limestone and coral or marble , quartzite
What is marble and quartzite ( also : slate , schist gneiss and coal )
300
these rocks are formed when existing rocks are changed by heat and pressure: metamorphic or sedimentary rocks
What are metamorphic rocks
300
igneous rocks where magma explodes out and cools quickly : intrusive or extrusive rocks
What are extrusive rocks
300
deep inside the earth this changes the form of the minerals and can flatten into bands: heat or pressure
What is pressure
300
sedimentary rocks can either be classified as: foliated and nonfoliated or clastic and non clastic
What is clastic and non clastic
300
sedimentary rocks can be formed from living things and water two types are: marble and quartzite or sandstone and limestone
What are sandstone and limestone
400
a scientist that studies rocks and minerals: petrologist or biologist
What is a petrologist
400
a sedimentary rock made up of sediments that are being cemented together : clastic or foliated
What is clastic
400
sedimentary rocks made up of dissolved minerals and the remains of living things : non clastic or non foliated
What are non clastic
400
metamorphic rock from with : heat and pressure or water and air
What is heat and pressure
400
two rocks that are made up of quartz, feldspar and mica are : granite and rhyolite or gabbro and gypsum
What is granite and rhyolite
500
the size of the crystal structure: texture or hardness
What is texture
500
metamorphic rocks that have crystals that have crystals that are not in bands : nonfoliated or non clastic
What is non foliated
500
a series of natural process by which rocks are slowly changed from one kind of rock to another kind of rock is called: the rock band or rock cycle
What is the rock cycle
500
the texture of metamorphic rock can be these two types : intrusive and extrusive or foliated or non folitated
What is foliated and non foliated