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Rock cycles
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| How does coarse grain texture cool? | Slowly |
| What rock has layers of strata? | Sedimentary rock |
| What clue word helps identify clastic sedimentary rock? | cemented |
| When does a chemical sedimentary rock form? | crystallize out of solution |
| What is organic sedimentary rock made from? | plants and animals |
| When does sedimentary rock form? | Formed as weathering forms sediments |
| Quartz and calcite are examples of of what occurring | Compaction |
| Where is sedimentary rock formed on the rock cycle? | surface |
| What does not occur in sedimentary rock that occurs to change other rock? | Heat and pressure |
| In metamorphic rock what changes in it? | Structure, texture, composition |
| What are the main categories in sedimentary rock? | clastic chemical organic |
| How is fine grain cooled? | rapidly |
| How are the bands arranged in nonfoliated minerals? | not aligned |
| What occurs during the formation of nonfoliated rocks? | Recrystallization |
| What is the process of recrystallization? | minerals change size/ compistion |
| contact metamorphism involves what? | high temperature |
| What are the affects to create magma? | Temperature, Pressure, composition |
| What doe chemical sedimentary rocks do to change the rock? | dissolve |
| What can cause minerals to melt in a rock? | temperature |
| What happens after rock melts? | Magma is formed |