Resources/Minerals
Solar panels, wind turbines, and dams are all examples of this type of energy resource .
What is a renewable resource?
This term refers to molten rock beneath the Earth's surface, while it's counterpart refers to molten rock that has erupted onto the surface.
What are magma and lava?
This type of sedimentary rock is made up of weathered pieces of bedrock.
What is a clastic/detrital sedimentary rock?
This is what we call the pre-existing rock, or parent rock, of a metamorphic rock?
What is a protolith?
While minerals have a specific chemical composition and crystalline structure, this broader category is made up of one or more minerals or mineraloids.
What is a rock?
This tabular, sheet-like intrusion cuts across pre-existing rock layers.
What is a dike?
Sedimentary rocks are the only type of rock to contain the ______ record, making them very useful for paleontologists.
What is the fossil record?
Geologist use these minerals that form at certain temperatures and pressures to identify metamorphic grade.
What are index minerals?
This process is when a solid forms from an aqueous (liquid) solution.
What is precipitation?
The addition of volatiles, such as water and carbon dioxide, lowers the melting point of rocks at subductions zones in this melting process.
What is flux melting?
This type of sedimentary rock does not form by physical weathering and erosion, but precipitates from water saturated with dissolved minerals.
What is a chemical sedimentary rock?
These geologic units are tectonically inactive and large part of the Earth's continental crust, composed of ancient rocks.
What is a craton?
This mining method removes rock using drills, explosives, or cutting to extract and process materials for construction.
What is quarrying?
This scientific model directly highlights the relationship between minerals and temperature.
What is the Bowen's Reaction series?
Shelled organisms die and accumulate at the bottom of the ocean floor to lithify into this type of sedimentary rock.
What is a biochemical sedimentary rock?
This type of stress is when material is squeezed unequally from different sides.
What is differential stress?
This process physically separates gangue minerals from ore bearing minerals.
What is concentration?
This massive, irregularly shaped intrusive body is larger than 100 square kilometers and often composed of granite.
What is a batholith?
This classification system ranks clastic sediment grains from boulders to clay based on their average diameter.
What is the Wentworth scale?
This very high pressure and low temperature metamorphism results from meteor or bolide impacts.
What is shock metamorphism?