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Quiz 8
Rock Types
100
This is what angular sand is.
What type of sand has sharp edges that have hardly worn off?
100
This is the three rock types.
What is sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic rock?
100
This is what a rock with calcium carbonate will do if it is squirted with acid.
What will fizz when squirted with acid?
100
This is index fossils.
What is fossils that live for short periods in many places?
100
This is how metamorphic rocks form.
What is forming when a rock changes due to heat and/or pressure?
200
This is what well rounded sand is.
What is original edges and corners that have been worn off totally by abrasion?
200
This is what most rocks have in common.
Why are most rocks made of minerals?
200
This is fossils.
What is the remains or trace of a plant or animal?
200
This is why index fossils are useful.
What provides evidence of rock layers?
200
This is how sediments become sedimentary rock.
What is getting compacted and cemented together?
300
This is the particle size of clay.
What has less than a 0.004 mm diameter?
300
This is about when trilobites first appeared.
What is in the middle of the Cambrian period at about 545 million years ago?
300
This is what determines the color of a sedimentary rock.
What does the elements and environment determine?
300
This is what features of a rock depend on.
What is chemical makeup?
300
These rocks all change due to heat and/or pressure.
What is igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks formation?
400
This is what intrusive rocks are.
What formed below Earth's surface?
400
This is why mountain sand is usually angular and poorly sorted.
What is the wind and mountain slop affected by?
400
This is 5 modern day sedimentary environments.
What environments are mudflat/beach, ripple marks, sand dunes, swamps, and mud cracks?
400
This is correlation.
What is the process of finding relationships between different rock layers?
400
This is sandstone and limestone.
What is two sedimentary rocks?
500
This is how warm the Mantle can get in Celsius and Fahrenheit.
What is 1200 degrees Celsius and 2192 degrees Fahrenheit.
500
This is the destructive process.
What is breaking down old landforms with weathering and erosion?
500
This is what the limewater represented in the limestone experiment.
What is the ancient sea water in the experiment we used with limewater?
500
This is how seashells are found above sea level.
What is tectonic plates uplifting?
500
This is when crystals are large due to slow cooling under earth's crust.
What is intrusive igneous rocks formation?