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A forming mineral | What is a mixture of minerals that makes up rocks ? |
Granite | What is the most common intrusive rock? |
Basalt | What is the most common extrusive rock? |
Grains | What are particles or other rocks? |
Texture | What describes the look & feel the rocks surface? |
Igneous Rock | Which type of rock forms by cooling of magma or lava? |
Sedimentary Rock | Which type of rock forms from particles of other rock or remains of plants or animals? |
Metamorphic Rock | Which type of rock forms from existing rock that is changed by heat & pressure or chemical reactions, and forms deep underground ? |
Intrusive Rock | Which “Igneous Rock” was formed from magma hardening below the Earth’s surface? |
Extrusive Rock | Which “Igneous Rock” was formed from lava that erupted onto the Earth’s surface? |
Silica | What do most of the Earth’s mineral’s contain? |
Sediment | What are small solid pieces of material that come from rocks or living things? |
Erosion | What is running water, wind or ice that loosens & carries away pieces of rock? |
Deposition | Name the process by which sediments settle out of water or wind carries it. |
Compaction | What is the process the presses sediments together by pressure? |
Cementation | What is it called when dissolver minerals crystallize & glue particles of sediment together? |
Clastic Rock | When a sedimentary rock forms from rock Fragments are squeezed together, what is the process called? |