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Vocabulary
Igneous Rocks
Living Coral
Classifying Rocks
Sedimentary Rock
100
Small, solid pieces of material that come from rocks or living things.
What is sediment?
100
Blank can be these colors: dark to light grey red pink
What is granite?
100
They produce skeletons that grow together to form a structure.
What is a Coral Reef?
100
Particles of minerals, or other rocks.
What are grains?
100
Is small, solid pieces of material that come from rocks or living things.
What is Sediment?
200
Is the process that presses sediments together.
What is compaction?
200
The blank of an igneous rock depends on the size and shape of it's mineral crystals.
What is texture?
200
Is a ring-shaped coral island found far from land.
What is an atoll?
200
The grains in a rock vary widely in shape.
What is Grain Shape?
200
Occurs when running water or wind loosen and carry away the fragments of rock.
What is Erosion?
300
A sedimentary rock that forms when fragments are squeezed together.
What is clastic rock?
300
Is an igneous rock formed from lava that erupted onto earth's surface.
What is an Extrusive rock?
300
Lies farther out, at least 10 kilometers from land.
What is a Barrier reef?
300
Is the look and feel of the rock's surface.
What is texture?
300
Is the process in which dissolved minerals crystallize and glue particles of sediment together.
What is Cementation?
400
a model that describes the formation, breakdown, and reformation of a rock as a result of sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic processes.
What is the Rock Cycle?
400
Is an igneous rock that formed when magma hardened beneath Earth's surface.
What is a Intrusive rock?
400
Lies close to shore, separated from land by shallow water.
What is a Fringing reef?
400
Is formed when an existing rock is changed by heat, pressure, or chemical reactions.
What is Metamorphic Rock?
400
Forms from the sand on beaches, on the ocean floor, in river beds, and in sand dunes.
What is Sandstone?
500
Forms where the remains of plants and animals are deposited in thick layers.
What is an organic rock?
500
Are tiny relatives of jellyfish that live together in vast numbers.
What is Coral Animals?
500
Often, geologists must look more closely at a rock to determine it's Blank.
What is Mineral Composition?
500
Forms from the remains of swamp plants buried in water.
What is Coal?