Magma that is high in silica usually form this color of rock.
What is light-colored rock?
100
Coal is this type of rock between clastic, organic and chemical.
What is organic?
100
Parent rock of Gneiss between Granite, sandstone and shale.
What is granite?
100
Between Erosion, deposition, compaction, and cementation, the process that presses sediments together.
What is Compaction?
200
Minerals that make up most of Earth's crust.
What are rock-forming minerals?
200
The rock that is igneous rock between marble, gneiss, basalt, and limestone.
What is limestone?
200
Type of sedimentary rock that forms when rocks fragments are squeezed together.
What is clastic?
200
When metamorphic rocks have their grain arranged in parallel layers or band are said to be this.
What is foliated?
200
Process that changes rock from one type to another.
What is the Rock Cycle?
300
Between where rocks form, the size and shape of rock's grains, when the rock formed, or how the rock formed, characteristic used to refers to the three major group of rocks.
What is how the rock formed?
300
The most abundant extrusive rock.
What is basalt?
300
Of sandstone, granite, conglomerate, limestone, the one that is not a sedimentary rock.
What is granite.
300
Slate is a denser, more compact version of this rock.
What is is shale?
300
Erosion and deposition play roles in the formation of this kind of rock.
What is sedimentary?
400
Igneous rocks may be similar in mineral composition but differ in this.
What is texture?
400
Type of igneous rock used for cleaning a polishing because of its rough surface?
What is Pumice?
400
Type of sedimentary rock that forms when minerals dissolved in solution crystallize.
What is chemical rocks?
400
Where most metamorphic rock form.
What is deep underground.
400
A rock that has a large crystal surrounded by smaller crystals.
What is a porphyry?
500
This drives the rock cycle.
What is plate movement?
500
Formed from the heating of obsidian and is often mixed with soil for starting vegetable seeds.
What is Perlite?
500
Process in which dissolved materials crystallize and glue particles of sediment together.
What is cementation?
500
Parent rock for Quartzite.
What is Sandstone?
500
Is called this when a sedimentary rock forms when rock fragments are squeezed together.