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Worksheet time: 9mins
A naturally occurring, solid material made of various materials that compose most of the earth's crust
Rock
Grain
Rock cycle
Texture
How a rock looks and feels according to the sizes of the mineral grains and other particles that compose the rock.
Texture
Clast
Igneous Rock
Nonclastic sedimentary rock
Pieces of mineral crystals, rock fragments, and even fossils in a that determines its texture
grain
metamorphic rock
clast
rock
A rock formed from solidified magma or lava
sedimentary rock
Igneous rock
metamorphic rock
A rock made from sediments produced by erosion, deposition, compaction, and cermentation
Sedimentary Rock
Metamorphic Rock
A piece of broken or eroded rock.
Clast
Texture
A rock made from eroded fragment
Clastic Sedimentary Rock
Chemical Sedimentary rock
A rock made of sediments that not clastic minerals
Nonclastic sedi. rock
clastic sedi. rock
A rock formed by Chemical precipitation
chemical sedi. rock
Sedimentary
Any process that involves chemical substance dissolved in water to form a solid compound
precipitation
dynamic metamorphism
rock formed from other types of rock are altered by high temperatures, pressures, and chemical process
metamorphic rock
igneous rock
Changes in composition, texture, and structure of rocks that occures over large areas of heat
Regional metamorphism
rock
By contact with high temp.
contact metamorphism
dynamic
occurs when condtion changes rapidly in a rock
dynamic
rock cycle
Metamorphic rock containing flattened or flaky mineral crystals
foliated rock
non foliated rock
lacking bands and layers; tends to break into sharp pieces
non folinted
folinated
processes undergone by rocks in the earth's crust, involving igneous intrusion, uplift, erosion, transportation, deposition as sedimentary rock, metamorphism, remelting, and further igneous intrusion.
rock cycle
rock
texture
clast
