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Classifying Rocks
Coral Reefs
Sedimentary Rocks
Igneous Rocks
Metamorphic Rocks
100
What do you call the grains in a rock that are easy to see?
What does coarse-grained mean?
100
What is a tiny relative to jellyfish that live in vast numbers?
What is a coral animal?
100
What are small, solid pieces of material that come from rocks or living things?
What is the definition of sediment?
100
What kind of rock do you classify by finding the origin, color, and mineral-compostion?
What characteristics are used to classify igneous rocks?
100
What type of rock needs to form under really hot conditions and pressure?
Under what conditions do metamorphic rocks form?
200
When do you want to know the grain size, grain shape, and the grain pattern of a rock?
How do geologists describe a rocks texture?
200
When coral animals die and things build on their skeletons what happens?
How do coral animals build a coral reef?
200
What are organic rocks, chemical rocks, and clastic rocks?
What are the three major types of sedimentary rocks?
200
What rock do you use for tools, building materials, cleaning and polishing, and cutting and scraping?
How are igneous rocks used?
200
Why is metamorphic rocks used for building and sculpting?
How are metamorphic rocks used?
300
What gives a rock its texture?
What are the grains of rock?
300
What is limestone made out?
What type of rock is made up of ancient coral?
300
What is erosion, deposition, compaction, and cementation?
What is the formation of sedimentary rocks?
300
What do you call that an igneous rock that formed from lava that erupted onto the Earth's surface?
What is the definition of extrusive?
300
What is a rock that have their grains arranged in parallel layers?
What does foliated mean?
400
What rock do Mica, hornblende, Feldspar, and Quartz make up?
What different rocks make up Granite?
400
What lives in warm shallow waters?
What conditions of light and temperature do coral animals require?
400
What is organic rock made of?
What type of rock is made of the remains of living things?
400
What do you call an igneous rock that formed when magma hardened beneath Earth's surface?
What is the definition of intrusive?
400
When would you want to look at the arrangements of the grains that make up the rock?
What is How do geologists classify metamorphic rocks?
500
When would you want to know rock mineral-composition, color, and texture?
What three characteristics do geologists use to identify rocks?
500
When would the coral reef rise?
If sea level rises above a coral reef, what may happen to the reef?
500
What types of rocks can you use to build because it is easy to cut?
What are sandstone and limestone useful as building materials?
500
Why is it good that igneous rocks are easy to cut?
What characteristics make igneous rocks useful?
500
What do you call a rock thats grains are randomly placed?
What does non-foliated mean?