Key Terms
Define Rock Cycle
What is The process that changes one type of rock into another.
Define Sedimentary Rocks
What is a rock that forms when lots of fragments of other rocks come together
Define Igneous Rock
What is when hot molten rock solidifies, igneous rock forms.
Define Metamorphism
What is anything that affects the process of a rock in a solid-state as a result of changes in temp., pressure, and addition of chemical fluids
Define Rock
What is a natural, solid mixture of minerals or grains
Define clastic sedimentary rock?
What is sedimentary rocks that are made up of broken pieces of minerals and rock fragments
Define Volcanic Glass
What is a rock that forms when lava cools too quickly to form crystals
Define Regional Metamorphism
What is the formation of metamorphic rock bodies that are hundreds of square kilometers in size
Define Magma
What is molten or liquid rock that is underground
Define Compaction
What is the weight from the layers of the sediment forces out fluids and decreases the space between grains
How can you tell if an igneous rock is intrusive or extrusive?
What is if the crystals are too small to see with a naked eye it is extrusive and if you can see them with a naked eye it is intrusive
Define Non-foliated Rocks
What is metamorphic rocks that have mineral grains with a random, interlocking texture
Define Extrusive Rock
What is when volcanic material erupts, cools, and crystallizes on Earth's surface
Define Chemical Rocks
What is form when minerals crystallize directly from water
Which mountain in Georgia is made out of igneous rock that formed underground and is now exposed to Earth's surface?
What is Stone Mountain.
Define Foliated Rocks
What is contain parallel layers of flat and elongated minerals
Define Intrusive Rock
What is igneous rocks that form as magma and cool underground
Define Cementation
What is when minerals in water crystallize between sediment grains
Latin meaning of Intrusive
What is to push in
Latin meaning of Foliated
What is consisting of thin, leaf-like layers