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19 Cards in this Set
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Igneous |
These rocks are produced when magma or lava cools and hardens |
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Metamorphic |
The word for change in for is |
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Natural gas, oil, coal |
The three major fossil fuels are |
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Ore |
A rock that contains a metal or other economically useful mineral |
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Non renewable |
Because fossil fuels take millions of years to form,they are |
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Erosion |
The movement of weathered rock and soil from one place to another |
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Heat and pressure |
Metamorphic rocks form from |
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Large |
If mama cools very slowly beneath earth's surface the crystals would be |
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Inorganic |
A mineral must contain no materials that were once part of living things or be |
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Deposition |
The process by which sediment settles out of the water or wind carring it is |
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Rock cycle |
A series of processes on ways surface and in the crust and mantle that slowly changes rocks from one to another |
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Extruding igneous |
Igneous rock that forms from lava |
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Sediments |
Erosion on a mountain that was pushed up as a result of two continental plates colliding will lead to three formation of |
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Cementation |
The process in which dissolved minerals crystallize and glue particles of sediment together is |
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Mantle |
The heat that changes metamorphic rock to mama comes from |
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Fossil fuels |
These come from the remains of once living things and give off energy when burned |
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Metamorphic |
If two plates collude and one is pushed toward the heat of the mantle, which type of rock is this |
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Chemical |
When classifying minerals the ability to burn and reactivity to acids are |
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How are rocks classified |
By how they are formed |
