Igneous rock formed from lava that erupted onto Earth's surface
What is an extrusive rock
100
Small solid pieces of material that comes from rock or living things
What is a sediment
100
These animals use their tentacles to capture and eat microscopic creatures that float by. They produce skeletons that grow together to form a structure called a...
What is a coral reef
100
Metamorphic rocks that have their grains arranged in parallel layer or bands are said to be...
What is foliated
100
A series of processes on Earth's surface and inside the planet that slowly change rocks from one kind to another
What is the rock cycle
200
Magma that high in silica usually forms light colored rocks, such as...
What is granite
200
The process by which sediments settle out of the water or wind carrying it
What is Deposition
200
A ring-shaped coral island found far from land
What is an atoll
200
can change any rock into a metamorphic rock
What is heat and pressure?
200
This drives the rock cycle by pushing rocks back into the mantle
What is plate movements
300
Igneous rock that formed when magma hardened beneath Earth's surface
What is Intrusive rock
300
The three types of sedimentary rocks
What is clastic rocks, organic rock, and chemical rocks
300
As the oceanic crust moves away from the mid-ocean ridge, it cools and becomes more dense.
How does volcanic island sink
300
The arrangement of the grains that make up the rocks is the way geologist.
What is the way geologist classify metamorphic rocks
300
This could form this kind of rock, Sand that has become sandstone is attached to oceanic crust. On this pathway through the rock cycle, the oceanic crust with the sandstone drifts toward a deep-ocean trench. Subduction returns some of the sandstone, where it melts and forms magma...
What is igneous rock
400
Igneous rocks are classified according to its...
What is origin, texture, and mineral composition
400
Name a chemical rocks
What is rock salt, gypsum, and limestone
400
This can be found on continents in places where uplift has raised ancient sea floors above sea level
Where can Limestone that began as coral be found
400
One common foliated rock
What is slate
400
This could change a rock's path through the rock cycle
What is Collisions between continental plates
500
A rock with large crystals scattered on a background of much smaller crystals
What is porphyritic texture
500
Forms from sediments of the skeletons of microscopic living things
What is the process of making chalk
500
There are exposed reefs where in the U.S. Name one
What is Wisconsin, Illinois, and Indiana, as well as in Texas, and New MExico
500
The uses of slate
What is flooring, roofing, outdoor walkways, or chalkboards.
500
A collision can squeeze some sandstone from the ocean floor. As a result, the sandstone will change into...