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Study Guide Chapter 2 Earth
Science
Rocks: Mineral Mixtures
1.How did humans use rocks in the past?
2.What causes magma to form?
3.Sedimentary rock is formed through the process of
4.What has to increase for metamorphism to occur?
5.What is the process in which water, wind, and heat break down rock?
6.When magma cools quickly, what kind of texture does rock have?
7.What are the main categories of sedimentary rock?
8.When temperature and pressure change, what can happen to the minerals in
rocks?
9.During the rock cycle, what forms when magma cools?
10.What do scientists call the rock that is formed when magma cools below the
Earth’s surface?
11.Besides clastic and chemical, what is the other kind of sedimentary rock?
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12.What kind of metamorphic rock has its mineral grains arranged in planes or
bands?
13.Besides texture, how else are rocks classified?
14.The process in which rocks change shape is called
TERMS AND DEFINITIONS
15.Naturally occurring solid mixture of one or more minerals
and organic matter
a. deposition
b. erosion
16.Process in which sediment is dropped and comes to rest
c. rock
17.Process by which new rock is made from old rock
18.The quality of a rock based on size and shape of the mineral
grains
d. texture
e. rock cycle
19.Process by which sediment is removed from its source
f. composition
20.The chemical makeup of a rock
21.Metamorphic rock in which mineral grains are NOT
arranged in bands
a. stratification
b. nonfoliated
22.Layers found in sedimentary rocks
23.Rock that cools at the Earth’s surface
c. extrusive igneous rock
24.Process in which layers in sedimentary rock are formed
d. strata
25.Rock that cools below the Earth’s surface
e. intrusive igneous rock
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