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How many categories of sedimentary rocks are there?
3
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What does morph mean?
changing
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what are the two groups of igneous rocks?
extrusive intrusive
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can the rock cycle go in many directions?
yes
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where are the forces that create and destroy the rocks on the surface located?
inside the earth
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What are the three categories of sedimentary rocks?
Organic chemical clastic
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What are the two categories of metamorphic rocks?
foliated nonfoliated
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what is extrusive?
when lava cools on the earths surface
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what does rock turn into when it weathers?
sediment
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if sand stone weathered what would its sediment be called?
sand
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What is clastic?
fragments of rocks pressed together
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What is foliated?
grains arranged in parallel layers
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what does intrusive mean?
when magma cools under the earths surface
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what does magma do to be come a rock?
cools and hardens
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what is the Taj Mahal made of?
marble
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What is chemical?
when chemicals disalve and crystallize
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What is nonfoliated?
grain arranged in random order
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when lava cools slowly what are the results?
large crystals in the rock
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what does a divergent boundary do?
spreads apart
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what rock can float?
pumice
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What are the four steps of the sedimentary formation?
erosion deposition compaction cementation
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what are metamorphic rocks formed by?
sedimentary rocks metamorphic rocks igneous rocks
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what are the results of fast cooling lava?
small crystals/glassy rock
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what determains the direction of the rock cycle
movement of plates
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what does lime stone start off as before it is a rock?
coral