vocabulary | rock cycle | rocks |
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What is collects in layers to form rocks
sedimentary
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What is how can a sedimentary rock change into an metamorphic rock
extreme heat and pressure
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What is the most common type of extrusive igneous rock
basalt
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What is when melted rock material form inside earth cools
igneous
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What is how can a metamorphic rock change into a igneous rock
by melting and cooling
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What is which rock has large mineral crystals that shows it cooled slowly
gabbro
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What is when exiting rocks are heated or squeezed, but not melted
metamorphic
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What is how can an igneous rock change into a sedimentary rock
weathering and erosion/ compaction and cementation
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What is which rock has a similar composition to granite but the lava it formed from cooled slower
rhyolite
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What is a long narrow opening or line breakage made by cracking or splitting
fissure
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What is how can a sedimentary rock change into a igneous rock
by melting and cooling
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What is which rock like gabbro cooled slowly inside earth forming large mineral crystals
granite
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What is made of grains of minerals or other rocks that have moved and been deposited in layers by water ,ice, gravity, or wind
detrital
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What is what kind of rock will granite change to when it goes through the metamorphic stage
gniess
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What is limestone can change into what rock when it goes through the metamorphic stage
marble
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