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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is the rock cycle? | all rock type can change into each other. ( sedimentery, igneous, metamorphic) |
| bowen reaction series | why certain types of mineral sare found togethers and others arn't |
| porphyritic | large crystal sin igneous rocks |
| vesicular | extrusive structures in glassy igneous |
| felsic | light |
| mafic | dark |
| grain size | the faster it cools the smaller the grains |
| intrusions | inside the earth |
| extrusions | out sid ethe earth |
| granite | hard igneous rock mostly quartz, mica and feldspar |
| obsidian | hard dark gaslike volcanic rock |
| basalt | dark fine grained volcanicn rock |
| pumice | very light and porus volcanic rock |
| compacction | minerals are squeezed together |
| cementation | glued together by minerals in water |
| chemical sedimentary rocks | precipitation of minerals by water |
| organic sedimentary rocks | rocks formed form the remains of organisms |
| clastic sedimentary rocks | composed of fragments of already existing rocks |
| angularity | smoothness of particles |
| halite | rock salt |
| coal | sedimentary rock |
| limestone | sedimentary rock mostly formed of fragments of marine organsims fossils |
| shale | fine grained clastic sedimentary rock |
| sandstone | clastic sedimentary rock composed of fine grains |
| conglomerate | course garined sedimentary rock made of round fragments |
| breccia | rocks with angular fragments cemented together |
| contact metamorphism | metamorphism that comes in contact with anigneous intrusion |
| regional metamorphism | affecting rocks over a large scale area from heat and pressure |
| lithosphere | outside of the earth consisting of the crust and uppoer mantle |
| athenosphere | upper layer of the matle beneath the litheospher |
| slate | fine grained gray, green or blush metamorphic rocks that can be easliy split apart |
| schist | course grained metamorphic that consits of layers of different layers. |
| Gneiss | metamorphic rock with banded structure |
| Quartzite | extremely compact hard ganular rock |
| Marble | hard crystaline metamorphic form of limestone |
| divergent boundry | two boundries moving away from each other |
| convergent boundry | one plate moves over another |
| transform boundry | slide from the side |
| subduction zones | zones where plates collide |
| evidence of plate boundries | similar fossils on continents far away from each other |
| examples of plate boundries | Mid ocean ridge, san andreas fault |
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