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Ch.2A Rocks Review Sheet
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What kinds of rocks result from the cooling of melted rock?
A mineral within a rock is called a ________.
What word means to change shape or form?
What kinds of rocks result from deposited and compressed sediments?
What word means “fire”
What kinds of rocks cool slowly and crystallize deep beneath the surface of
the Earth?
7. What kinds or rocks change from one form into another?
8. Liquid rock found on the surface of the Earth is called _______.
9. In what kind of glassy rock are mineral grains too small to see?
10.In what kind of rock are mineral grains visible and the same size?
11.In what kind of rock are mineral grains of two distinct sizes?
12.Under heat and pressure, what rock does sandstone turn into?
13.Limestone under heat and pressure turns into what rock?
14.Give three examples of Metamorphic rock.
15.What types of rocks form in layers?
16.Limestone, halite and gypsum are all what kind of rock?
17.Liquid rock underneath Earth’s surface is called what?
18.What kind of metamorphism is associated with mountain building?
19.Wearing down rocks by sun, wind, rain and water is called what?
20.In what process do rocks get squeezed by the pressures of the Earth?
21.Give three examples of Igneous rock.
22.What kind of metamorphism is caused when heat fluids and gases touch
rocks and cause them to change?
23.Phaneritic, porphoritic, and aphanetic are what kinds of rocks?
24.Mineral grains can become changed into foliated in what type of rock?
25.This model is used to describe rock changes on Earth.
26.Granite is what type of rock?
A. Marble
B. Regional Metamorphism
C. Phaneritic
D. Slate, Quartzite, Marble
E. Magma
F. Igneous (used more than once)
G. Lava
H. Compaction
I. Plutonic or Intrusive
J. Grain
K. Sedimentary (used more than once)
L. Quartzite
M. Porphoritic
N. Metamorphic (used more than once)
O. Aphanetic
P. Weathering
Q. Contact Metamorphism
R. Rock Cycle
S. Granite, Pumice, Obsidian