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Rocks and Minerals Vocab
Rocks and Minerals Vocab
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These Igneous Rocks have Crystals Smaller than you can easily see
Mafic
Fine-grained
Coarse-grained
Clastic
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This type of sedimentary rock is formed from compaction and cementation
Mafic
Organic
Clastic
Chemical
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Liquid Rock BELOW ground
Lava
Volcano
Magma
Extrusive
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The name for a layer of sediment
Cementation
Clastic
Strata
Compaction
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This type of magma comes from oceanic crust and shield volcanoes
Basaltic
Igneous
Hot Spot
Aa
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A Solid Inorganic Combination of Elements
Mineral
Rock
Felsic
Basaltic
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When Magma is Trapped Underground and Forms Rock it is called
Intrusive Features
Volcanoes
Extrusive Models
Rock
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An igneous rock with holes where the gas bubbles were is called
Fine-Grained
Vesicular
Glassy
Coarse-Grained
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Dark Colored, Dense Igneous Rocks from fast flowing magma
Location
Felsic
Mafic
Chemical
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This determines the texture of Igneous Rocks
Weathering
Location of Cooling
Type of Magma
Composition
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Cooling of Magma below Ground forms this kind of rock
Extrusive
Intrusive
Sedimentary Rock
Melting
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The cycle that describes the forming and breaking of rock
Rock Cycle
Magma Cycle
Water Cycle
Carbon Cycle
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This type of Magma comes from Continental Crust and Cinder-Cone volcanoes
Lava
Granitic
Sedimentary
Basaltic
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This type of Sedimentary rock forms when water evaporates and leaves minerals behind
Chemical
Clastic
Metamorphic
Organic
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The removal of rock or sediment from one place to another
Erosion
Cementation
Compaction
Metamorphism
