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What consistency is the outer mantle? |
liquid |
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What consistency is the inner mantle |
Plastic |
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What consistency is the crust? |
solid, duh |
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What consistency is the core? |
Solid |
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Is mountain building exogenic or endogenic |
Endogenic |
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Is weathering exogenic or endogenic? |
Exogenic |
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What happens during the rock cycle? |
igneous flows out of the crust It weathers and forms sedimentary Heat and pressure create metamorphic |
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What is the law that states older rock layers will be at the bottom? |
The law of superposition |
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Batholith forms from |
Magma that has frozen in place |
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According to the rock cycle, any rock can form any other kind of rock given enough time True or false? |
true |
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An assemblage of minerals bound together is a |
Rock |
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Limestone is what kind of rock? |
sedimentary |
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What does silicon and oxygen form? What kind of rock is it? |
quartz It is a mineral |
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What kind of rock is graphite, coal and diamond? What is it composed of? |
It is a mineral Carbon |
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What kind of Rock is feldspar? What is it made of? |
It is a mineral Silica tetrahedra |
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What are essential elements in silicate minerals? |
oxygen Silicon |
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What are 4 types of silicates |
Carbonates Sulfates Sulfides Halides |
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This type of rock is made of cooled magma |
Intrusive igneous rock |
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This type of rock is made from cooled lava |
Extrusive igneous rock |
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What type of rock is granite? |
Intrusive igneous |
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What is a felsic rock? |
igneous rock rich in silica |
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What is mafic rock? |
Igneous rock lower in silica |
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What is a batholith |
Massive body of intrusive rock that has melted and assimilated many of the rock structures it has invaded |
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What is a stock? |
It is intrusive rock that has melted and assimilated many of the rock structures it has invaded but on a small scale than a laccolith |
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What is a sill? |
Magma that spread between rock layers without much disturbance |
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Magma that has cut vertically making a rock barrier |
Dike |
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Intrusive magma that pushes up rock layers creating a gentle bulge |
Laccolith |
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When a granite stone becomes uncovered due to weathering and the expansion causes fractures |
Exfoliation |
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The tendancy for rocks to develop parallel fractures without any obvious movement over the plane of separation |
Jointing |
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A dark, fine grained rock that came from low silica magma but penetrated the surface as an extrusive rock |
Basalt |
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Layering of sedimentary rocks |
Stratification |
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The finest grained clastic sedimentary rock |
Shale |
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What type of rock is quartzite? What is it composed of? |
metamorphic Quartz grains and silica cement |
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What kind of rock is marble? What is it composed of? |
metamorphic Limestone |
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What kind of rock is slate? What is it made of? |
metamorphic Shale |
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What kind of rock is a schist? |
metamorphic |
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This process occurs when rocks are stretched or compressed, aligning mineral grains and forming a pattern of parallel bands |
Foliation |
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What is gneiss What is it composed of What special feature does it have |
Metamorphic Granite Foliation |
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What kind of vegetation is in the tropical rainforest biome? What is the precipitation like? How much isolation does it receive? |
Tall closely spaced trees Mostly humid no wet season High amounts |
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What kind of vegetation does a Savannah biome have What kind of precipitation |
tropical grassland and widely spaced trees Seasonally wet and dry climate |
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What kind of vegetation is in a desert biome? What kind of precipitation |
Sparse or absent Arid or semiarid |
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What are the 7 types of endogenic systems? |
Rock cycle Weathering Mass movement Fluvial Eolian Coastal Glacial |
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What is the basis for relative time? |
Superposition |
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What does clastic mean? |
Made from rock fragments |
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What does non clastic mean? |
Made from organic material |
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What were the 3 alternate hypothesis for continental drift |
Rafting Ismithian links Island stepping stones |
