Metamorphic ESRT

What non foliated metamorphic rock is the metamorphism of quartz sandstone?

• Metaconglomerate

• Quartzite

• Schist

• Shale

• Granite

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

Name the 6 minerals that make up most foliated metamorphic rocks?

• Mica, Quartz, Feldspar, Garnet, Pyroxene and Olivine

• Mica, Quartz, Feldspar, Garnet, Pyroxene and Amphibole

• Halite, Gypsum, Mica, Quartz, Feldspar and Amphibole

• Gypsum, Mica, Quartz, Feldspar, Calcite and Amphibole

Describe how a sedimentary rock can become a metamorphic rock.

• add compaction and cementation

• quickly cooled magma or lava

• add heat and/or pressure to the rock

• melt the rock

Name a non foliated metamorphic rock with a composition of calcite and/or dolomite

• Marble

• Anthracite coal

• Slate

• Quartzite

• Gneiss

How could you tell a piece of white quartzite from a piece of white marble? (select 2)

• Drop some acid on it - Marble will fizz and quartzite will not

• Marble is hard, Quartzite is soft

• Marble is soft, Quartzite is hard

• Marble is never white

• Quartzite is never white

The metamorphism of limestone or dolostone will produce which non foliated metamorphic rock?

• Phyllite

• Marble

• Hornsfels

• Gneiss

• Schist

Describe the grain size of schist

• Fine to medium

• Fine

• Fine to Coarse

• Medium to coarse

• Coarse

Name the fine grained, non foliated metamorphic rock formed from CONTACT metamorphism

• Slate

• Schist

• Hornfels

• Marble

• Quartzite

No foliation or banding occurs with which type of metamorphism?

• Contact

• Regional

• Melting

• Vesicular

What metamorphic rock shows mineral alignment, fine to medium grain size and platy mica visible crystals?

• Slate

• Schist

• Gneiss

• Marble

• Quartzite