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Dust and Bits
We Will Rock You
Under the Earth
Pot Luck
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100
Rocks made under lower pressure with natural cement that form in layers
What are sedimentary rocks?
100
This process shows that any type of rock can be made into any other type of rock.
What is the rock cycle?
100
The molten rock upon which the earth's crust floats.
What is magma?
100
Breaking in an irregular fashion
What is fracturing?
100
studies rocks
What is a geologist?
200
A rock made from bits of sand which were laid down over time
What is sandstone?
200
This type of rock is made directly from magma.
What is igneous?
200
A large body of magma in the crust under a volcano.
What is a stock?
200
A break with a clean definite line
What is cleavage?
200
One of these is not a mineral: quartz, feldspar, frankincense, mica
What is frankincense?
300
A build up of materials and particles that forms slowly
What is sediment?
300
This type of rock means 'changed'. It is made from already existing rocks that are changed by heat and pressure.
What is metamorphic rock?
300
a narrow branch of magma shooting of roughly horizontally
What is a sill?
300
These substances have identifiable rigid structures.
What are crystals?
300
Magma after it emerges above ground
What is lava?
400
Sedimentary rocks can often be identified by the fact that they have clear ____ showing when things were laid down?
What is strata or layers?
400
All rocks are made from these naturally occurring minerals.
What are minerals?
400
A narrow shoot of lava cutting up through rock
What is a dike?
400
Marble is this type of rock
What is metamorphic?
400
Gneiss used to be granite, but it has changed and is now this type of rock.
What is metamorphic?
500
Sometimes sedimentary rocks contain these imprinted evidences of living things.
What are fossils?
500
A type of sedimentary rock made up of many different materials of different sizes.
What is a conglomerate?
500
A large body of cooled and hardened magma in the crust.
What is a laccolith?
500
Number of major types or patterns of crystal found in minerals.
What is six?
500
Determined by the rate at which magma cools
What is crystal size?