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16 Cards in this Set
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What type of rock forms from magma solidifying? |
Igneous |
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What type of rock forms from high temperature and pressure? |
Metamorphic |
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What 2 processes form sedimentary rocks? |
compaction & cedementation |
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Course grained texture means what crystal size? |
Large |
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Igneous rocks that cooled slowly from magma have what type of texture? |
Course grained |
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Intrusive igneous rocks from what, and where? |
Magma, in the ground |
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What does texture of a rock mean? |
The size of mineral or grain or crystals |
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What does composition of a rock mean? |
What a mineral of a rock is made of |
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What does Mafic composition mean? |
Dark colored |
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What does felsic composition mean? |
Light colored |
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Wearing away of rock to sediment is called what? |
Weathering |
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how are rocks classified |
by texture & composition |
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Fast cooling lava will most likely form what igneous rock? |
Extrusive |
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Sedimentary rocks that are formed from broken fragments are |
Extrusive Igneuous |
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When minerals crystallize out of solution, what rocks are formed |
chemical |
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Where does contact metamorphism occur? |
when they contact magma |
