Chapter 4

Question 1

What is the series of processes in which a rock forms, changes from one type to another, is destroyed, and forms again by geological process?

Answer 1

Rock Cycle

Question 2

What is the process by which wind, water, ice, or gravity transports soil and sediment from one location to another?

Answer 2

Erosion

Question 3

What is the process in which material is laid down?

Answer 3

Deposition

Question 4

What is the chemical makeup of a rock; describes either the minerals or other minerals in the rock?

Answer 4

Composition

Question 5

What is the quality of a rock that is based on the sizes, shapes, and positions of the rock’s grains?

Answer 5

Texture

Question 6

What is rock formed from the cooling and solidification of magma beneath the Earth’s surface?

Answer 6

Intrusive igneous rock

Question 7

What is rock that forms as a result of volcanic activity at or near the Earth’s surface?

Answer 7

Extrusive igneous rock

Question 8

What are layers of rock?

Answer 8

Strata (singular- stratum)

Question 9

What is the process in which sedimentary rocks are arranged in layers?

Answer 9

Stratification

Question 10

What is the texture of metamorphic rock in which the mineral grains are arranged in planes or bands?

Answer 10

Foliated

Question 11

What is the texture of metamorphic rock in which e mineral grains are not arranged in planes or bands?

Answer 11

Nonfoliated

Question 12

What is a naturally occurring solid mixture of one or more minerals or organic matter?

Answer 12

Rock