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 |