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38 Cards in this Set
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#1 What is a type of rock that forms as a result of heat and pressure but does not melt?
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Metamorphic Rock
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#2 How does an igneous rock with a coarse grained texture form?
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When magma cools very slowly
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#3 What are two ways that rock can be brought to the Earth's surface?
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Uplift and the erosion of overlying rock
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#4 What does the arrangement of minerals in a rock determine?
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It's texture
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#5 When sediment of rock is buried deep inside the Earth, what is it affected by?
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Heat and pressure
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#6 Why do the individual grains of sedimentary rock hold together?
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Because they have been cemented.
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#7 Name three processes that occur in the rock cycle.
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Cooling, melting,heat and pressure, weathering and erosion
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#8 Which type of rock can weather and wear away to form sediment?
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sedimentary, metamorphic, igneous
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#9 Define erosion.
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Erosion is the weathering and wearing away of rock into sediment.
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#10 Which type of rock forms near the Earth's surface without the influence of intense heat and pressure?
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Sedimentary Rock
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#11 List the correct order of steps in the sedimentary rock cycle.
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Weathering, erosion, deposition, compaction, and cementation
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#12 What type of rock are fossils preserved in?
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Sedimentary rock
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#13 Where do most fossils come from?
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Animals that lived in the oceans, in sedimentary rock
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#14 What type of rock can change into metamorphic rock?
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All three: igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rock
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#15 What causes metamorphic change?
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Heat and pressure
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#16 Give an example of metamorphic rock.
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Quartzite
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#17 T or F Metamorphism melts rock.
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False
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#18 What type of rock is shale?
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Sedimentary rock
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#19 What do mineral crystals often form as a result of?
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Heat and pressure
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#20 What do the minerals in sedimentary rock depend on?
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The place where the sediment was deposited
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#21 Name three things that play a part in the processes that change rock from one form to another.
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Water, gravity, wind
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#22 How is sedimentary rock changed into metamorphic rock?
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When it is heated and put under pressure
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#23 How is igneous rock changed into sedimentary rock?
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When it weathers and erodes
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#24 Define rock.
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Rock is a solid mixture of crystals of one or more minerals.
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#25 Define rock cycle.
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The rock cycle is the process by which one rock type changes into another.
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#26 What is magma?
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Magma is the hot liquid that forms when rock partially or completely melts.
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#27 What rock is formed when magma cools beneath the Earth's surface?
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Igneous Rock
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#28 Define sedimentary rock.
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Sedimentary rock forms when rocks are broken down into smaller pieces that harden into new rock.
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#29 Define metamorphic rock.
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Metamorphic rock forms when rock is heated or squeezed.
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#30 Define grain.
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Fragments of rocks or minerals that can make up rocks.
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#31 Define uplift.
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The process by which regions of the Earth's crust rise to higher elevations
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#32 Define weathering.
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Weathering is when water, ice, wind, and heat break down rocks.
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#33 (Short Answer)
What physical properties are used to classify rocks? |
Streak color, lustre, hardness, texture, layering
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#34 (Short Answer)
If a rock is made of large particles with rough, jagged edges, was the sediment deposited close to or far from its source? How do you know? |
Close to its source because the rock particles did not travel far enough to be broken into smaller smoother pieces
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#35 Draw the rock cycle. (Short Answer)
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Draw.
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#36 Explain the difference between a mineral and a rock. (Short Answer)
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Rocks are made of one or more minerals.
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#37 Draw a concept map using the following terms: rocks, rock cycle, cooling, metamorphic, igneous, heat, pressure, melting, deposition, erosion, sedimentary.
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Draw.
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#38 Describe three forms of erosion. (Short Answer)
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Rain and floods carry away rock particles. Wind lifts and carries away fine particles of dust and sand. Gravity causes mudflows and rock slides.
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