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21 Cards in this Set
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rock-forming minerals
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one of the common minerals that make up most of the rocks of earths crust
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granite
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a usually light-colored igneous rock that is found in the continental crust.
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basalt
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a dark, dense, igneous rock with a find texture, found in the oceanic crust.
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grains
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the particles of minerals or other rocks that give a rock
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texture
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the looks and felling of a rock's surface, determined by, shape, and pattern of a rocks grain.
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igneous rock
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a type of rock that forms from the cooling rock at or below the surface.
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sedimentary rock
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a type of rock that forms when particles rocks or the remain's of plants and animals are pressed and cemented together.
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metamorphic rock
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a type of rock that forms form an existing rock that is changed by heat, pressure, or chemical radiations.
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coral reef
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structure of calcite skeletons built up by coral animals in warm, shallow ocean water.
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foliated
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term used to describe metamorphic rocks that have grains arranged in parallel layers or bands.
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extrusive rock
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igneous rock that forms from lava on earths surface.
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sediment
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small solid pieces of material that come from rocks or organized.
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erosion
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the process by which water, ice, wind, or gravity moves weathered rocks and soil.
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deposition
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the process by which sediment settles out of the water or wind that is caring it.
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compaction
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the process by which sediment's are pressed together under their own weight.
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cementation
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the process by which dissolved minerals crystallize and give partiments of sediment.
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clastic rock
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sedimentary rock that forms when rock fragment's are squeezed together under high pressure.
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organic rock
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sedimentary rock that forms from remains of organism's deposited in thick layers.
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chemical rock
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sedimentary rock that forms when minerals crystallize from a solution.
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rock cycle
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Igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks change continuously, through the rock cycle.
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intrusive rock
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Igneous rock that forms when magma harden's beneath earth's surface.
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