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Volcanic glass

Obsidian

Light porous rock

Pumice

Fossils are found in what type of rock

Sedimentary

Rocks formed from minerals precipitated from rocks are what type of rock

Nonclastic

Step between deposition and cementation

Compaction

A person who studies the origin and classification of all rocks

Petrologist

Individual rock particles crystals and sometimes fossils that give a rock its texture is called what

Grains

Young earth geologist think that on the third day the basement rock was created and it was what type of rock

Igneous

What are large crystals that interlock called

Pegmatite

Rock tied most closely to the process of sedimentation

Sedimentary

Which does not belong pebbles clay sand or magma

Magma

Deposits of halite penetrate vertically through rock strata is called what

Salt domes

What is it called when hydrothermal fluids changed rocks that they have contacted

Chemical metamorphism

Rock that seems to be changed from its original state

Metamorphic

Term that describes rock with small crystals that can't be seen without a microscope

Aphanitic

Rock fragments that fused together to form new rock is called what

Clasts

Limestone makes what when it undergoes metamorphism

Marble

Three conditions thought that helps rocks undergo metamorphism

Heat pressure and hot chemicals

Rocks that look like they have bands

Foliated

Old Earth geologist believe that in the rock cycle Rock will eventually turn back to what

Magma

What is the correct order shale schist slate

Shale, slate, schist

Sedimentary rock testifies what

The flood

Rocks are usually made up of two or more mixtures true or false

True

Cement and concrete are composed of igneous rock true or false

False

The Old Earth view fits better with the rock cycle theory true or false

True

Granite or gabbyo

Intrusive

Slate or niess

Foliated

Limestone or chalk

Nonclastic

Conglomerate or breccai

Clastic

Marble or quartzite

Nonclastic

Three reasons why organisms might live under rocks

Temperature regulation food storage and safety from predators

Three types of rock in an example that is used for building

igneous granite metamorphic gravel and sedimentary limestome