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| What is a rock? | Earth material made up of two or more minerals. |
| What are the major classifications of rock? | Igneous, Sedimentary, and Metamorphic. |
| What are sediments? | Sediment-bits of rock/minerals or remains of organisms |
| How are sediments formed? | Bits of rock formed by running water, wind, earthquakes, land slide, gravity, volcanic ash, animal activity, ice, glaciers, and tree roots. |
| Describe the three types of sediments? | sand-Bits of rock/organisms between 2 mm to one sixteenth mm |
| sediments-2. | silt/clay-bits of rock/organisms smaller than sand |
| sediments-3. | pebbles/rocks |
| What does the word metamorphism mean? | "Change", geology-ig/sed rocks change into met rocks. |
| What are the two major factors that produce metamorphic rocks? | A.pressure-Overlying rocks at least two miles deep, earthquake pressure.B.heat-magma/lava can cook rocks, and pressure from overlying rocks create heat. |
