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Chapter 6.4: Metamorphic Rocks Topic Questions
Directions: Not all of the answers to these questions for this assignments are found in the textbook.
Those not in the textbook will be covered in your notes.
1. What are metamorphic rocks?
2. What is the parent rock of Slate and Mica?
3. What is the parent rock of Gneiss? What about Marble?
4. What are the two main forces that cause rocks to change?
5. What is the rate of temperature increase inside the Earth? What causes this?
6. What is the general temperature range at which Metamorphosis occurs?
7. If the rate of temperature increase is 25 degrees Celsius per km in a certain location, at 11 km
below the surface, what would the temperature be? What type of rock (sedimentary or
metamorphic) would you be most likely to find at this depth?
8. What are two other sources of heat inside the Earth that would cause metamorphosis?
9. What are two sources of pressure inside the earth that would cause by metamorphosis?
10. Identify the four ways in which rocks are changed by metamorphosis.
11. What are the three forms of metamorphism?
12. What is Regional Metamorphism and where are the two locations it occurs?
13. What is Dynamic Metamorphism? In which state (ex. Virginia, Texas, not limited to these
choices) would metamorphic rock be more common than others?
14. What is Contact or Thermal Metamorphism? What are two sources of high temperatures that
would cause this type of metamorphism?
15. Metamorphic rocks are classified based upon what three criteria
16. What are the different metamorphic textures
17. List, in order, the names of the rocks that mud becomes as it changes from sedimentary rock,
then to metamorphic rock?