Rock Cycle
The geologic process that changes any rock type into magma.
What is melting?
The name(s) of the material from which all Igneous Rocks form.
What is magma and lava?
The name of the rock-forming process that describes the formation of all Sedimentary Rocks.
What is Lithification?
All Metamorphic Rocks are classified according to these two properties.
What is texture and composition?
The name of the model which shows the relationship between the different rock types.
What is the Rock Cycle?
The geologic processes that change Sedimentary Rocks into Metamorphic Rocks.
What is heat, pressure, and chemically active fluids?
The term for the type of Igneous Rocks that form beneath Earth's surface.
What is Intrusive Igneous Rocks?
This type of Sedimentary Rock is formed by living things.
What is Organic or Biochemical Sedimentary Rocks?
These processes form all Metamorphic Rocks.
What is heat, pressure, and chemically active fluids?
When sand is turned into sandstone, this geologic process has taken place.
What is lithification through compaction?
The names(s) of the geologic process(es) that change any rock into sediment.
What is mechanical and chemical weathering?
The term for the type of Igneous Rocks that form at or near Earth's surface.
What is Extrusive Igneous Rocks?
The names of the four types of sediment that form all Detrital/Clastic Sedimentary Rocks.
What is Gravel, Sand, Silt, and Clay?
The most influential agent of metamorphism.
What is heat?
This type of metamorphic texture shows no layering or banding.
What is non-foliated texture?
The name(s) of the geologic process(es) that create Sedimentary Rocks.
What are compaction and cementation?
All Igneous Rocks are classified according to these properties.
What are texture and composition?
The names of the four products of weathering.
What is Rock Fragments, Quartz Grains, Clay Minerals, and Dissolved Substances?
The type of metamorphism you find in large mountain belts.
What is regional metamorphism?
What is melting to become lava or magma?
The geologic process(es) that begin after weathering takes place.
What is erosion and deposition?
The names and general mineral description of the three types of magma that form all Igneous Rocks.
What is Granitic (high silica, light-colored minerals), Basaltic (low silica, dark colored minerals), and Andesitic or Intermediate (medium silica, mixture of dark and light colored minerals)?
Describe the three categories of Sedimentary Rock.
What is Detrital - made up of rock fragments?
What is Organic/Biochemical - made of of previously living plants and/or parts of animals?
What is Chemical - made up of precipitate and/or evaporite minerals?
When the parent rock looks totally different from the metamorphic rock formed, this degree of metamorphism has occurred.
What is high-grade metamorphism?
The type of Sedimentary Rock formed from each of the four products of weathering.
What is Detrital/Clastic Sedimentary Rocks from Rock Fragments, Quartz Grains, and Clay Minerals and what is Organic and Chemical Sedimentary Rocks from Dissolved Substances?