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What are those? (Vocab)
Misc.
100
This is molten rock found below the earth's surface.
What is magma?
100
Sedimentary rocks are formed from this type of material.
What is sediment?
100
True or false: Melting a rock can make it into a metamorphic rock.
What is false.
100

What are rocks made of?

Minerals

100

What is the most common rock on the surface of the earth?

Sedimentary

200
This is molten rock found above the earth's surface.
What is lava?
200

The term for when pressure is applied to sediment causing the water to be squeezed out?

What is compaction?

200

Metamorphic means

Complete change

200

This igneous rock is light colored, can have large crystals and It can be used on counter tops.

What is granite

200

What was the first type of rock?

What is igneous

300
Igneous rocks are categorized as _________ or _________, depending on where the molten rock cooled.
What are extrusive and intrusive.
300

This process sticks the sediment together when water evaporates leaving behind the matrix of minerals that were once dissolved in the water

What is cementation

300

Along with heat, this is what shapes a metamorphic rock

What is pressure

300

What type of weathering would involve a tree breaking apart a rock?

Biological 

300

What is the name of the landform created by the deposition of sediment at the mouth of a river?

What is a delta

400
__________ igneous rocks have larger crystals than the other kind of igneous rocks.
What is intrusive?
400

This type of sedimentary rock powers the world

What is coal?

400
This type of rock can be formed when you apply pressure to a sedimentary rock?
What is metamorphic rock?
400

Plate tectonics is the force that builds rocks (earth)up. What is the term for the collective forces that break the rocks down?

Weathering

400

The Colorado river is responsible for creating what large example of weathering and erosion?

The Grand Canyon

500
This type of igneous rock is the most common, and it covers pretty much the entire ocean floor.
What is basalt?
500

Acid rain dissolves granite statues. What type of weathering is this?

What is chemical

500

Its not mean to say that this rock is metamorphosed granite

What is Gneiss

500

This type of igneous rock cools so quickly that it does not form mineral grains. The atoms are arranged in orderly patterns and few crystals if any are present.

What is obsidian

500

What rock is formed when lava, being ejected from a volcano, is rapidly cooled creating many holes.

What is Pumice