ES30 - 2: Rocks and Minerals Review

Rocks whose crystals interlock with one another

• Clastic

• Crystalline

• Ore

• Strata

Molten rock beneath the Earth's surface

• Ore

• Lava

• Magma

• Mineral

A succession of several layers or beds together

• Strata

• Weathering

• Bedding

• Vesicles

Sedimentary rock (such as coal) formed from carbon-rich relicts of organisms

• Chemical Sedimentary Rock

• Organic Sedimentary Rock

• Intrusive

• Extrusive

The transformation of loose sediment into solid rock through compaction and cementation

• Foliation

• Metamorphism

• Weathering

• Lithification

Open holes in igneous rock formed by the preservation of bubbles in magma as the magma cools into solid rock

• Strata

• Ore

• Foliation

• Vesicles

Rocks whose grains are stuck together by cement

• Clastic

• Crystalline

• Lava

• Minerals

A homogenous, naturally occurring, solid inorganic substance with a definable chemical composition

• Rock

• Magma

• Mineral

• Ore

Layering formed as a consequence of the alignment of mineral grains, or of compositional banding in a metamorphic rock

• Bedding

• Foliation

• Strata

• Minerals

The process that break up and corrode solid rock, eventually transforming into sediment

• Erosion

• Clastic

• Sedimentary

• Weathering