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| Generally, what are rocks made of? |
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| a mixture of minerals and other materials |
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| What determines a rock's texture? |
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| the size, shape, and pattern of a rock's grains |
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| A rock the cools quickly when formed may have what kind of texture? |
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| smooth and shiny with no visible grain |
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| When all the grains in a rock are large and easy to see. |
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| Rock that forms from the cooling of magma or lava is called |
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| True or False: Most metamorphic rock forms underground. |
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| Type of igneous rock that formed from cooling lava on Earth's surface |
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| What is the most abundant intrusive rock? |
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| The texture of an igneous rock that has large crystals scattered on a background of smaller crystals. |
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| The process by which sediment settles out of water or wind carrying it. |
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| The process in which dissolved minerals crystallize and glue particles of sediment together. |
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| The sedimentary rock formed when water deposits tiny particles of clay in thin, flat layers. |
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| A sedimentary rock formed when rock fragments are squeezed together. |
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| **A ring shaped coral island found far from land is called this. |
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| Chalk formed from sediments made from skeletons of microscopic living things in the ocean. |
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| True or False: If the sea level rises or if the sea floor sinks, a coral reef will continue to grow upwards. |
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| Coral is a form of what organic rock? |
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| Limestone that began as coral reef can now be found on the continents. Why? |
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| Movements in Earth's crust have moved ancient sea floors above sea level. |
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| Heat and pressure below Earth's surface can change any kind of rock into this kind of rock. |
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| The heat that changes rock into metamorphic rock comes from where? |
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| How do geologists classify metamorphic rocks? |
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| the arrangement of the grains that make up the rock |
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| The texture of a metamorphic rock that has grains arranged in parallel layers is called this. |
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| Metamorphic rocks that are __________ do not split into layers. |
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| A series of processes on Earth's surface and interior that slowly changes rocks from one kind to another is called this. |
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| True or False: Smelting is one of the stages of the rock cycle. |
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| What stage in the rock cycle would be necessary to change granite into sandstone? |
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| Dissolved calcite in ocean water cements granite sediment together |
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| For Stone Mountain in Georgia, the rock cycle began when? |
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| When a granite batholith formed beneath the Earth's surface |
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| In the rock cycle, what type (or types) of rock can change to form sedimentary rock? |
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| True or False: During the rock cycle, forces inside Earth can push rock down toward the heat of the mantle to form metamorphic rocks. |
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| A sedimentary rock made up of round fragments of other kinds of rocks is called this. |
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| Magma that is high in ________ usually makes light colored rocks such as granite. |
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| A metamorphic rock that forms grains in bands is called _________. |
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| The texture of slate is said to be _______ because its mineral particles can be seen only with a microscope. |
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| What are coral reefs formed from? |
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| The sketetons of tiny ocean creatures that have grown together. |
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| Where are coral reefs formed? |
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| Only in warm, clear ocean water |
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| Some of the sedimentary rock called ________ is made from ancient coral reefs buried by sediments. |
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| Some of the sedimentary rock called ________ is made from ancient coral reefs buried by sediments. |
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| Some of the sedimentary rock called ________ is made from ancient coral reefs buried by sediments. |
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| Some of the sedimentary rock called ________ is made from ancient coral reefs buried by sediments. |
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| A coral reef is made of ________, a material that forms the skeletons of coral animals. |
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| In the rock cycle, some rock melts and forms magma in the layer of Earth known as the _________. |
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| An igneous rock that is formed from lava is called an __________ rock. |
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| Dissolved minerals and particles of sediment stick together to form sedimentary rock in a process called ________. |
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| Small, solid pieces of material that come from rocks or living things are called _________. |
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| As layer upon layer of sediments are deposited, the process of _________ presses them together. |
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| Foliated and nonfoliated are terms used to describe the texture of ______ rocks. |
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| Igneous rock that cools in two stages(a slow stage forming large crystals & then a fast stage forming very small crystals) is said to have a _______ texture. |
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| Two conditions that can cause sedimentary rock to change to metamorphic rocks are? |
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| What type of sedimentary rock is coal? |
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| When mineral solutions evaporate, a type of sedimentary rock called a ________ rock can form. |
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| The carrying away of rock fragments by water, wind, or ice is called ______, an important process in the formation of sedimentary rocks. |
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| Coral grown on top of a volcanic island can form an _______. |
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