Sedimentary
When particles have been compacted and start to stick together to form rock.
What is cementation?
The metamorphic rock texture in which mineral grains are arranged in planes or bands.
What is foliation?
Rock formed from the cooling and solidification of magma beneath the Earth's surface.
What is Intrusive Igneous Rock?
This is how a metamorphic rock can start to change into a sedimentary rock.
What is weathering and erosion?
Mt Apatite is located in this town.
Where is Auburn?
Loose fragments of rock, minerals, and organic material that come from the weathering of rocks and natural processes.
What is sediment?
Name TWO types of foliated metamorphic rock.
What are schist, slate, gneiss, or marble?
Name one type of igneous rock.
What is obsidian, basalt, granite, rhyolite, or pegmatite? (There are many others...)
Igneous rock can become metamorphic rock if it is exposed to _________ and __________.
What is heat and pressure?
This mineral is what they were mining for at Mt. Apatite.
What is feldspar?
Name TWO types of sedimentary rock.
What are sandstone, shale, conglomerate or breccia?
The process by which heat, pressure, or chemical processes change one type of rock to another (hint: ends in -ism).
What is metamorphism?
The ______________________________________ of minerals in the rock and its texture determine the identity of the igneous rock.
What is chemical composition?
Sedimentary rock can become igneous rock through ______ and _________.
What is melting and cooling?
This red mineral is found frequently at Mt. Apatite, and is a birthstone for January.
What is garnet?
Fossils can be found preserved in this particular type of rock.
What is Limestone?
The movement of ______________ ________________ help paid in the creation of metamorphic rocks.
What are the tectonic plates?
When magma cools slowly inside the earth to form intrusive rock, it often forms these.
What are crystals?
How can a metamorphic rock change to another metamorphic rock?
What is heat and pressure?
The rocks that we found at Mt. Apatite are this kind of rock. (metamorphic, sedimentary, or igneous)
What is intrusive igneous rock?
The process in which sediment is pressed together due to the pressure of overlying sediments is called ____________________________________________.
What is compaction?
Quartzite and marble are what type of metamorphic rock. (Hint: are they banded?)
What is nonfoliated?
When magma cools outside of the earth, it makes _______________________.
What is extrusive igneous rock?
If you expose limestone to extreme heat and pressure you get what type of metamorphic rock?
What is marble?
What is purple?