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Metamorphic
100
Parent rock of Gneiss.
What is Schist.
100
Rock made from ancient plants.
What is Coal.
100
Magma can push into rock layers and cause changes over areas ranging from a few centimeters to tens of meters.
What are changes over small areas.
200
Parent rock of Phyllite.
What is Slate
200
Rock with no minerals.
What is Obsidian.
200
Heat and pressure change the rock layers that make up the mountains into metamorphic rocks.
What are changes over large areas.
300
Parent rock of marble.
What is Limestone
300
Changes each type of rock into another type.
What is The Rock Cycle.
300
The arrangement of minerals of minerals within rocks into flat or wavy parallel bands.
What is foliation.
400
Parent rock of Schist.
What is Phyllite
400
Lava before it reaches the surface.
What is magma.
400
The process by which bonds between atoms in minerals break and re-form in new ways during metamorphism.
What is recrystalization.
500
Parent rock of Slate.
What is Shale
500
Takes up 5% of the earth's crust.
What is Sedimentary rock.
500
The process in which an existing rock is changed by heat or pressure.
What is metamorphism.