Formation of Sedimentary Rocks
Types of Sedimentary Rocks
Metamorphic Rocks
The Rock Cycle
Hodge Podge
100
Wind, Water, Glaciers, Gravity
What are the 4 agents of Erosion?
100
Form from sediments and are classified by particle size and shape.
What are clastic sedimentary rocks?
100
Heat and Pressure
What is required to form metamorphic rock?
100
Compaction and Cementation
What are processes that form sedimentary rocks?
100
When molten material like an igneous intrusion comes in contact with solid rock.
What is contact metamorphism?
200
The remains or other evidence of once-living organisms that are often preserved in sedimentary rocks.
What are fossils?
200
Form primarily from minerals precipitated from water.
What are chemical sedimentary rocks?
200
Foliated metamporphic rocks
What are metamorphic rocks that contain layers?
200
Heat and Pressure
What are processes that form metamorphic rocks?
200
The continuous changing and remaking of rocks.
What is the rock cycle?
300
Physical and Chemical
What are kinds/types of weathering?
300
This rock type forms from the remains of once-living organisms.
What are organic or biochemical sedimentary rocks?
300
Nonfoliated metamorphic rocks
What are metamorphic rocks with no layers and blocky, crystal shapes?
300
Melting
What is the process that turns rocks into igneous rocks?
300
The main ingredient in pencil lead, a metamorphic rock.
What is graphite?
400
The word that describes when layers of sediments are pushed together.
What is compaction?
400
Clay, Silt, Sand, Gravel
What are sizes of sediment grains from smallest (finest) to largest (coarsest)?
400
When temperature and pressure affect large regions of Earth's crust.
What is regional metamorphism?
400
Weathering and erosion
What are processes that create and move sediments?
400
What is a foliated metamorphic rock?
500
The word that describes how sediments are "glued" or stuck together during the formation of sedimentary rock.
What is cementation?
500
Siltstone
What is a clastic sedimentary rock formed from silt?
500
When very hot water reacts with rock and alters its chemical and mineral composition.
What is hydrothermal metamorphism?
500
Cooling and crystallizing
What are processes that form igneous rocks?
500
The type of rock formed from the clastic sediment with the larges grain size.
What is conglomerate?