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Demonstrates the relationship between rocks.
What is the rock cycle?
Dirt.
What is sediment?
Formed from cooling magma.
What is igneous rock?
Rocks are combinations of one or more of these
What is a mineral?
Rocks are classified into three groups based on this.
What is how they are formed?
Formed by compaction and cementation of sediments
What is sedimentary rock?
Three categories of sedimentary rock.
What are clastic, chemical and organic?
Clastic sedimentary rock formed from angular fragments.
What is Breccia?
This rock can be chemical or organic.
What is limestone?
Fossils
What is organic sedimentary?
The minerals in this type of rock are separated by density into bands
What is foliated metamorphic rock?
Formed from extreme heat and pressure
What is metamorphic rock?
Limestone after much heat and pressure
What is marble?
The type of metamorphism found along plate boundaries.
What is regional metamorphism?
It’s not the most popular way to get metamorphic rock.
What is contact metamorphism?
Formed by slowly cooled magma within the earth.
What is intrusive igneous rock?
Volcanic glass.
What is obsidian?
Mineral crystals not usually visible
What is extrusive igneous rock?
Magma which contains high amounts of silica
What is felsic?
A very large igneous rock mass formed underground
What is a batholith?
The process that forms sedimentary rock
What is cementation and compaction?
Major rock types that can form sediments
What are igneous, sedimentary, metamorphic?
Process that forms igneous rock
What is cooling?
Within the rock cycle magma is formed from this process
What is melting?
The water cycle helping the rock cycle involves these spheres
What are the hydrosphere and solid earth?