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Metamorphic rock types
Sedimentary
Metamorphic
Sedimentary rock types
Bonus Questions
100

This type of metamorphic rock forms when limestone is subjected to heat and/or pressure.

What is marble?

100
What are the small pieces of minerals and rock that are formed from weathering?
What is sediment?
100
This is what it takes for a rock to undergo metamorphism?
What is if the temperature and pressure of a rock is different than the environment in which the rock formed, then it will undergo metamorphism?
100

This is a rock formed from non-sorted sediment containing large rounded pebbles, sand and silt, cemented together

What is conglomerate?

100

Which type of sedimentary rock is formed from the remains of plants or animals?

What is biological sedimentary rock

200

This type of rock is metamorphosed sandstone

What is quartzite

200
Dissolved minerals seperate from water that passes through sediment and do what?
What is bind rock and mineral fragments together into sedimentary rock.
200
These are the two ways in which metamorphism can occur.
What are contact and regional metamorphism?
200

This is the type of sedimentary rock that usually forms on an ancient beach, dunes, or desert. It is well sorted consisting of mainly sand. 

What is sandstone

200

Is marble foliated or non-foliated?

what is non-foliated

300

This type of metamorphic rock forms from low grade metamorphism of shale

What is slate

300
This is where sedimentary rocks form.
What is at or near Earth's surface?
300
These are the two textures of metamorphic rock.
What is foliated and nonfoliated metamorphic rock?
300
This type of sedimentary rock often forms in shallow seas and can be both biological remains clastically cemented together, OR chemical sed. rock from seawater precipitation.

What is limestone?

300
This is another type of organic sedimentary rock that forms underground when partially decomposed plant material is buried beneath sediment and is changed due to heat and pressure over millions of years.
What is coal?
400

This type of metamorphic rock forms from mid-grade metamorphism and contains minerals such as shiny muscovite mica and garnets in a foliated texture.

What is schist

400
This is the most noticeable feature of sedimentary rock.
What is that the sedimentary rocks are in layers or strata (single horizontal layer of rock)
400
This is texture of metamorphic rock in which the mineral grains are arranged in planes or bands.
What is foliated?
400

This type of sedimentary rock often forms at the bottom of lakes, clastic in nature, and easily broken into thin brittle layers of very fine grained sediment.

What is shale

400

What typically causes contact metamorphism?

What is magma intrusion?

500

This type of metamorphic rock is highly foliated with bands of light and dark minerals and forms from the highest grade of metamorphism.

What is gneiss

500
These are the three main types of sedimentary rock.
What are clastic, chemcial, and organic?
500

This type of metamorphism forms from contact with hot, iron rich water.

What is hydrothermal metamorphism?

500

This type of sedimentary rock is chemical and is formed from the precipitation of seawater. The easiest but not always safest way to identify this rock is to lick it.

What is halite (rock salt)

500

What Earth process is usually the culprit behind regional metamorphism?

What is plate tectonics ( convergence)