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Define Rock

A

naturally occurring solid mixture of one or more minerals or organic matter

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how are rocks classified?

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  1. how they are formed
  2. composition (what they are made of)
  3. texture
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Rocks change over time via what?

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Rock Cycle

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what are the three types of rocks

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igneous, sedimentary, metamorphic

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igneous rocks form from what

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cooled liquid magma

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Any rock can become an igneous rock if

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it’s melted into magma

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when magma reaches earth’s surface, it is called

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lava

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We identify igneous rocks by…

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texture and color

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how many types of texture?

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four

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how is texture determined?

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how quickly a rock cools

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the cooling rate determines what

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the size of the minerals within the rock

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texture describes what two things..

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crystal size and appearance

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What are the 4 types of texture (by speed of cooling)

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pyroclastic (fastest)
froth
fine-grained
intrusive (slowest)

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What does pyroclastic mean?

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Formed by explosion

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what is another word for pyroclastic

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fragmental texture

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pyroclastic are the _______ and _______ that are blown into atomosphere

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ash and cinders

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because pyroclastic cools so quickly…

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no crystals form and ashes and cinders are cemented together

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Froth is magma that is cooled by

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water or forced far from the source of heat

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Do crystals form with pyroclastic or froth?

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NO

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the texture of froth is called

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glassy or vitrous

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Name another name for volcanic glass

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Obsidian

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Pumice, which is not smooth is formed from…

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froth

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obsidian is formed from..

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froth

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fine-grained is magma that cools..

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above the Earth surface

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fine grained magma forms crystals that...
aren't visible
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when crystals are not visible it's called
extrusive
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extrusive rocks have _______ appearance
uniform
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The slowest cooling rocks are called
intrusive
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intrusive rocks cool where
within the Earth
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intrusive rocks have _______ texture
coarse
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what does coarse texture mean?
You can see the crystals that have formed. You may even be able to identify different minerals.
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depending on where/how a volcano forms, the magma will dissolve a different amount of
silica
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silica makes up what percent of Earth crust
95%
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what is another word for silica?
silicon dioxide SiO2
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magma inside the earth is made primarily of..
..heavy metals
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amount of Earth's crust dissolved by magma rising to surface is correlated to
amount of silica added to magma
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felsic rocks are (color)
light in color
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felsic rocks are low in _______ and high in ______
low = heavy metals and high = silica
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FEL in felsic is for
potassium feldspar
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SIC in felsic is for
silica
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felsic have specific gravity of
less than 3.0
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felsic is lighter because they contain less
metals
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mafic rocks are (color)
dark
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mafic rock contain silica but have higher amounts of
heavy metals
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MA in mafic comes from
magnesium
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FIC in mafic from
Latin word for iron
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mafic have specific gravity of
more than 3.0
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intermediate are somewhere between
felsic and mafic
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Intermediate color is
grey or brown--neither very light or very dark
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the word intermediate means
in the middle
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Ultramafic are extremely
DARK and HEAVY
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Ultramafic rocks have very high percentages of
heavy metals
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Sedimentary rocks from when
bits of sediment are compacted and cemented together
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to become a sedimentary rock, it first need to be
sediment
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sedimentary rocks are made of
sediment but can also consist of organic matter compacted/cemented together
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sedimentary rocks are classified by
rock type, texture and structure
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what are the three types of sedimentary rocks
Clastic/detrital, chemical or organic
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What is a clastic/detrital rock
pre-existed rock compacted/cemented together
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A Clastic or detrital rock can be what sizes
boulder, pebble, sand, silt/clay
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Chemical sedimentary rock forms how?
when bits of pre-existing rock and minerals are dissolved in a solution (usually sea water) are cemented together as the solution evaporates.
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Give two examples of chemical sedimentary rock...
rock gypsum and rock salt
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How is organic sedimentary rock formed?
when organic matter is compressed and cemented together.
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Give examples of organic sedimentary rock
coal, limestone, limestone coquina
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How is texture determined
by the visibility of the particles of the rocks
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what is the range of texture?
fine, medium and coarse
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If a rock's texture has uniform color and visible sediments the texture would be
fine
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if a rock's color is mostly uniform and small particles visible what is texture
medium
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if a rock is composed of large, obvious particles what is texture?
coarse
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STructure describes the what of a rock
APPEARANCE
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If the structure is FRAGMENTAL it means
it is obvious that different types of particles are cemented together
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if the structure of a rock is GRANULAR
it appears to be grainy, composed of sand-sized particles or smaller
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If the structure of the rock is CRYSTALLINE
it means crystal shape is evident in structure of the rock
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if the structure of the rock is GLASSY
it means the rock is shiny or scratchy in appearance
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if the structure of the rock is RESINOUS
it means the rock appears to contain resin (produced by trees and plants)
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How do METAMORPHIC rocks form?
when existing rocks of any type are pushed deep within the Earth and are exposed to extreme heat and pressure
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in METAMORPHIC rocks the heat and pressure
cause partial melting and compression of the existing rock
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two ways metamorphic rocks are classified
foliated and non-foliated
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some Metamorphic rocks have a banded appearance which means
the rock has stripes or alternating layers of color
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foliated rocks often cleave along
their layers
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non-foliated metamorphic rocks have no
visible layers and often have complete fracture (or do not break along clear surface)
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what is difference between foliated and non-foliated metamorphic rocks
``` foliated = layers non-foliated = no layers ```
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Metamorphic rock texture means
the size of visible crystals
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when no crystals are visible we say
the rock is FINE GRAINED
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when crystals are obvious we say
COARSE GRAINED
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when rocks have a range of crystals--fine to coarse we say
medium grained
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what is a parent rock?
what rock the metamorphic rock came from i.e. before it was exposed to extreme heat and pressure
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If we can identify a parent rock of a metamorphic rock we can
make connection between rocks we can identify and visualize the rock cycle process
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What is the rock cycle?
(look at diagram on study guide)

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