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rock vocabulary
Rock unit
Question | Answer |
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What process involves moving sediment from one place to another? | erosion |
When rock is broken down into fragments by wind, rain and ice. | weathering |
What process changes a rock? | heat and pressure |
What determines a rock's composition? | The minerals that make up the rock. |
When a rock cools on the surface of the earth. | extrusive |
This texture of rock has large crystals because of being cooled beneath the earth's surface.. | Intrusive |
What are the 3 groups of rocks | sedimentary, igneous, metamorhic |
An example of a fine grained, igneous rock. | obsidian |
The size, shape and positions of mineral grains in a rock determine... | rock texture |
This process moves material from below the surface TO the surface. | Uplift |
The continuous process of a new rock being formed from old rock material. | rock cycle |
This is melted rock. | magma |
Compaction and cementation forms a sedimentary rock from what material? | sediment |
Cooled magma forms... | igneous rock |
Two characteristics scientists use to idenrify rocks... | texture and composition |