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Limestone
Slate
Sandstone
Marble
Granite
100
These kinds of rocks form when minerals are dissolved in a solution and crystallize?
What are chemical rocks?
100
The names of the three major groups of rocks refer to this.
What is how the rocks formed?
100
This is an igneous rock while granite, sandstone and marble are not.
What is basalt?
100
This has large crystals on a background of smaller crystals.
What is a rock with a porphyritic texture?
100
This is where most metamorphic rock forms.
What is deep underground?
200
This is a denser, more compact version of shale.
What is slate?
200
Sedimentary rock is formed primarily by these actions.
What is erosion and deposition?
200
This term describes the way a rock looks and feels.
What is texture?
200
This instrument helps geologists determine a rock's mineral composition.
What is a microscope?
200
This is not a sedimentary rock like sandstone or conglomerate.
What is granite?
300
Grains arranged in parallel bands in metamorphic rocks are said to be this.
What is foliated?
300
This is a process in which dissolved materials crystallize and glue particles of sentiment together.
What is cementation?
300
This is the series of processes that change rock from one type to another.
What is the rock cycle?
300
The movements of these drive the rock cycle.
What are plates?
300
Diamonds are a girl's best friend, and this happens to be a type of organic rock that makes them.
What is coal?
400
This rock that began as coral can be found on continents.
What is limestone?
400
Basalt is the most common type of this rock.
What is extrusive?
400
This process presses sediments together.
What is compaction?
400
This sedimentary rock forms when rock fragments are squeezed together.
What is clastic rock?
400
This differentiates igneous rocks that are similar in mineral composition.
What is texture?
500
This rock is described by being course grained, light in color, and has a mineral composition of quartz and feldspar.
What is granite?
500
These two factors effect sedimentary rock and metamorphic rock in the rock cycle.
What are heat and pressure, and erosion?
500
These characteristics help geologists identify rocks.
What are color, texture, and mineral composition?
500
The constructive and destructive forces of the Earth drive this.
What is the rock cycle?
500
If igneous rock from magma cooled deep below the surface of the Earth, it would have these kinds of crystals.
What are large crystals?