Introduction to Rocks

Question 1

What are the steps to the Rock Cycle

Answer 1

Magma
Crystallization
Ignoeus Rock
Erosion
Sedimentation
Sedimentary Rock
Tectonic Burial
Metamorphic
Melting of Rock and Minerals

Question 2

What are rocks made up of?

Answer 2

One or more Minerals

Question 3

What are the things that granite is made up of?

Answer 3

Feldspar
Quartz
Mica

Question 4

What are minerals made up of?

Answer 4

Regularly Arranged Atoms

Question 5

How do minerals grow?

Answer 5

Distinct Objects called Crystals

Question 6

How many types of minerals are in crystals?

Answer 6

One type

Question 7

True or False: A crystals atoms are arranged in an orderly, repeating pattern

Answer 7

True

Question 8

What is a rock?

Answer 8

Any naturally occuring solid mass or aggregate of one or more minerals or mineraloid matter

Question 9

What is a monomineralic?

Answer 9

(Some Minerals) Limestone-Calcite
Quartzite-Quartz

Question 10

What is a Polymineralic?

Answer 10

(The majority of rocks) Granite
Quartz
Feldspar
Mica

Question 11

What are the three main types of rocks?

Answer 11

Igneous Rock
Metamorphic Rock
Sedimentary

Question 12

What is an igneous rock?

Answer 12

Deep in the Earth the tempatures are so high that materials, including minerals can form

Question 13

What are sedimentary rocks?

Answer 13

Sediments come from the erosion of previously existing rocks, dissolved minerals that precipitate out of solution, or the remains of plants and animals.

Question 14

What are the names of the rocks that form by the deposition under water?

Answer 14

Cementation and Compaction

Question 15

What is evaporation?

Answer 15

Water leaving behind minerals (aka precipitates (Rock salt)

Question 16

What are the types of sedimentary rocks?

Answer 16

Clastic and Non-Clastic

Question 17

What is a clastic rock?

Answer 17

Broken pieces of rock
Weathering/Erosion
Cements or compacts (lithification)
Sandstone, shale, conglomerate

Question 18

What is a Non-Clastic Rock?

Answer 18

Evaporation (Evaporites)
Organic. coal (bioclastic)

Question 19

What is Breccia?

Answer 19

Jagged Clasts

Question 20

What is a metamorphic rock?

Answer 20

When rocks are re-buried below the Earth’s surface and exposed to high pressure and tempature, the minerals become unstable and they exchange chemical elements

Question 21

True or False: Metamorphic Rocks can produce bands on the rock

Answer 21

True

Question 22

What are some examples of Parent Rock

Answer 22

Sand-stone:Quartzite
Limestone:Marble
Shale-Slate

Question 23

What are some results of Metamophism?

Answer 23

Density and Crystal Size

Question 24

What is Regional Metamorphism?

Answer 24

Affects rocks over an extensive area

Question 25

What is contact metamorphism?

Answer 25

Is due to contact with or proximity to an igneous intrusion

Question 26

What is a foliated texture?

Answer 26

Mineral Alignment

Question 27

What are the colors of the bands of minerals?

Answer 27

Light and dark

Question 28

The process in which sedimentary rocks form begins with

Answer 28

Compaction

Question 29

How many different kinds of igneous rocks are there?

Answer 29

More than 700

Question 30

The rock that makes up the ocean floor is

Answer 30

Basalt

Question 31

One property of pumice is

Answer 31

The ability to float on water

Question 32

Which of the following sedimentary rocks contains the smallest sediments?

Answer 32

Shale

Question 33

Which sedimentary rock is formed of rounded stones that have been cemented together?

Answer 33

Conglomerate

Question 34

Metamorphism begins with

Answer 34

Rock

Question 35

A metamorphic rock may undergo foliation when pressure is

Answer 35

A metamorphic rock may undergo foliation when pressure is