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Metamorphic
Sedimentary
Igneous
Rocks & Minerals
Just Rocks
100
Rocks formed by changes in heat and pressure or the presence of hot, watery fluids
What are metamorphic rocks?
100
deposition and compaction
What are the the first two processes for making sedimentary rocks?
100
The crystals that form in slowly cooling magma are
What is large?
100
The scale that measures the hardness of gemstones.
What is Mohs Scale?
100
A mixture of minerals, volcanic glass, organic matter or other material
What is a rock?
200
Foliated rocks are distinguished by
What are layers?
200
The process which glues sediment together by dissolved minerals to form rocks
What is cementation?
200
Formed under the ground from hot magma
What are intrusive rocks?
200
Quartz is a mineral, but granite is a
What is rock?
200
A model that illustrates the processes that change rocks
What is the rock cycle?
300
Metamorphic rocks become exposed on Earth by
What is uplift and erosion?
300
Process in the rock cycle by which liquids flow through spaces between sediment and fill it in
What is cementation?
300
Above ground liquid rock that forms igneous rocks
What is lava?
300
Inorganic, orderly arrangement of atoms, naturally occurring, with a definition chemical composition
What is a mineral?
300
Formed from molten material
What is an igneous rock?
400
A type of metamorphic rock in which mineral grains grow and rearrange but do not form layers
What is nonfoliated?
400
detrital, chemical, or organic
What are the classifications for sedimentary rocks?
400
Processes that form igneous rock
What are melting and cooling?
400
Foliated or nonfoliated
What are classifications of metamorphic rocks?
400
When melted material deep in the earth hardens, it forms
What is igneous rock?
500
Processes that form metamorphic rocks
What are heat and pressure?
500
Does not cement the sediment together, but does form sedimentary rocks
What is compaction?
500
Formed at or near the surface of the earth from hot magma
What are extrusive igneous rocks?
500
Process in the rock cycle which MOVES sediment
What is erosion?
500
Formed from already existing rock that weathered and eroded
What are sedimentary rocks?