6th - Science Chapter 4 notes Flashcards

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What are the fragments that make up rocks?

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Grains

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Is a natural, solid mixture of minerals or particles?

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Rock

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What can a rock be classified according to?

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  1. Size
  2. Shape
  3. Chemical composition
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What do geologists do to rocks according to their composition and their texture?

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Classify

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What is the size of grains in a rock and the other way the grains fit together?

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Texture

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Texture can be used to determine the ____________ in which a rock formed.

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Environment

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What is the material that makes up a rock called?

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Composition

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What can the composition of a rock be used to determine?

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  1. Where the rock was formed

2. To interpret the conditions that existed when the rock formed.

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What are the three major rock types?

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  1. Igneous
  2. Sedimentary
  3. Metamorphic
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What type of rocks are formed when magma or lava cools and crystallizes?

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Igneous rocks

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What is the molten or liquid rock material below Earthโ€™s surface called?

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Magma

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What it is called when molten rock erupts on Earthโ€™s surface?

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Lava

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What type of rocks are formed where sediment is deposited?

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Sedimentary rocks

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Name some forces that cause rocks to break down?

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  1. Wind
  2. Running water
  3. Ice
  4. Gravity
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Sediment is rock material that forms where rocks are broken down into smaller pieces or _________ in water as rocks erode.

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Dissolved

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Sediment can be ___________ to new environments where they are deposited and form sedimentary rock.

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Brought

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What type of rocks form when rocks are exposed to extreme temperatures and pressure or the addition of chemical fluids?

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Metamorphic rocks

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The minerals that make up the rockโ€™s composition can change as well as the ____________ or the arrangement of the individual mineral grains.

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Texture

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In many cases, the change is so intense that the arrangement of the grains appears what?

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Bent or twisted layers

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What type of rocks do metamorphic rocks form from?

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Igneous, sedimentary or other metamorphic rocks

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Some processes of the rock cycle such as those associated extreme temperature, pressure and melting occur only where?

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Beneath Earthโ€™s surface

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What is a tectonic process that forces rocks onto Earthโ€™s surface?

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Uplift

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Igneous rocks form from molten rock in what forms?

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Magma or lava

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Lava cools ___________ above earthโ€™s surface.

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Quickly

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Magma cools more _________ below Earth's surface.
Slowly
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What type of igneous rock is formed when volcanic material erupts and cools and crystallizes on Earth's surface?
Extrusive Rock
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Some extrusive rock cools so quickly that __________ do not have time to grow.
Crystals
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What is a rock that forms when lava cools too quickly to grow crystals?
Volcanic Glass
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What sometimes get trapped in the lava escape, leaving holes in the extrusive rock?
Bubbles
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What is igneous rock that forms as magma cools underground?
Intrusive Rock
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What does intrusive rock contain because the magma cools slowly?
Large crystals
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As with all types of rocks, what two characteristics can help to identity igneous rocks?
Texture and composition
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If the crystals are small or impossible to see without a magnifying lens, it is what type of rock?
Extrusive Rock
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If the crystals are large enough to see and have an interlocking texture, what type of rock is it?
Intrusive Rock
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Igneous rocks are classified, in part, due what in their content?
Silica
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What -colored minerals contain more silica?
Light-colored
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Magma composition, the location where lava or magma cools and crystallizes, and the ______________ determine the type of igneous rock that forms.
Cooling rate
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What and air can change the physical or chemical properties of rock?
Water
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This change can cause rock to break apart, to dissolve, or to form new what!
Minerals
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When water travels through rock, some elements of the rock can dissolve and be ____________ to new locations.
Transported
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The sediment eventually are ___________, or laid down, where they can then accumulate in layers.
Deposited
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What is the process called as young layers of sediment are deposited on top of old layers, the weight from the layers of sediment forces out fluids and decreases space between grains?
Compaction
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Compaction can lead to a process called what, in which minerals dissolved in water crystallize?
Cementation
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Sedimentary rocks are classified by how they what?
Are formed
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What are broken pieces and fragments called?
Clast
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The size and _________ of the class help to determine which agent deposited it.
Shape
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Agents with enough energy to move large clast, such as a fast-flowing River, tend to move ___________, well-rounded sediment.
Polished?????
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Calm environments, such as the bottom of a lake, tend to have ________ sediment.
Angular ????
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What form when minerals crystallize directly from water?
Xxx
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Particles can crystallize out of a(n) _______________ solution to form minerals.
Water
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Chemical rocks often have a(n) _______________ crystalline texture.
Interlocking
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The crystal structure of a chemical rock is similar to the structure of a ______________igneous rock.
Intrusive
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What is composed of one dominant mineral?
Chemical sedimentary rocks
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What are composed of a variety of minerals?
Igneous rocks
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What is a sedimentary rock that is formed by organisms, or it contains the remains of organisms?
Biochemical rock
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Most of Earth's _____________ formed with the help of marine organisms.
Limestone?
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These organisms used dissolved substances in ocean water to form their __________ parts.
Shell ?
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After organisms die, the hard parts of their bodies compact and ________ and form limestone.
Cemented
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Much of Earth's limestone is made of what?
Calcite
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Some biochemical rocks contain ____________ and oxygen instead of carbonates.
Silicon
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What energy resource is a biochemical rock composed of the remains of plants and animals from prehistoric swamps?
Coal
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Metamorphic rocks form when rocks are exposed to what?
High temperatures and pressures
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Most metamorphic rocks form where?
1. deep in the Earth's crust | 2.
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Metamorphic rocks _____________ and form layers during their formation.
Wrinkle?
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Rocks under high temperatures and pressure can behave like what?
Bendable plastic
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Plastic materials bend and _______ without melting.
Fold
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As they form, metamorphic rocks might permanently change shape by bending and folding during what?
Plastic deformation
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Bending and folding of rocks is common during the formation of what?
Mountains
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The temperature needed to change a rock to a metamorphic rock depends on the composition of the what?
Parent rock
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Temperature must reach at least what for metamorphic rocks to form?
Between 150*C and 200*C
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Pressure becomes ____________ with increased depth in Earth's crust and mantle.
Greater
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Metamorphic rocks are classified based on what?
Texture and mineral composition
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Metamorphic rocks that contain distinct layers with parallel, flat, or elongated minerals are called?
Foliated rocks
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What are metamorphic rocks that have mineral grains with a random, interlocking texture called?
Nonfoliated rocks
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What is one way that nonfoliated rocks are formed?
Contact metamorphism
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At these contacts, heat and gases from ___________ interact with surrounding rock, forming metamorphic rock.
Xxxx
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What is the formation of extremely large metamorphic rocks? This process can create an entire ______________ of metamorphic rock.
Regional metamorphism; mountain range