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| a coastline with beaches. |
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| If you find sandstone in an area, then you can assume that the area was once |
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| If you find limestone in an area, then you can safely assume that the area was once |
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| The rock type you would find most often, at the surface, in New Brighton, is _____________________. |
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In the rock cycle, sedimentary rock can either surface and eventually become sedimentary again, or it can be buried deeper and become metamorphic. |
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| C. rocks can take many paths, and change in any order |
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What may be different about the rock cycle when you compare it with other natural cycles that you have learned?
A. it has no beginning or end
B. it is predictable, and operates the same way over and over again
C. rocks can take many paths, and change in any order
D.rocks cycle just like water or any other natural cycle |
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| Fossils can only be found in this type of rock. |
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| Coal and shale are important rocks, because they provide us with _____________________. |
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| The White Cliffs of Dover are composed mostly of what rock?[image] |
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| Limestone is composed of shells and bones of ancient sea creatures. Therefore, it is a ____________________ sedimentary rock. |
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| Shale forms from _____________________. |
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(Shells and bones form carbonate) |
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Clastic sedimentary rock is made of the shells and bones of ancient sea creatures. |
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| The best way to describe this sedimentary formation is ___________________.[image] |
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This image shows a sedimentary rock formation. Which fossils are the oldest?
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| ____________________________ forms as layers of sediments are deposited, compacted, and cemented together. |
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| What natural process produces sediments? |
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Granite is the protolith of gneiss. |
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| Shale is the protolith of |
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| Sandstone is the protolith of ____________________. |
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| This type of metamorphism affects rock in small areas. |
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What do you see in this rock that gives you a clue that it is metamorphic?
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With metamorphic rock, the parent could be sedimentary, igneous, or a different metamorphic rock. |
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[image]
Which metamorphic process does the image above show? |
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| When an existing rock changes to a new rock due to heat and pressure we call it __________________________. |
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The Martin Luther King, Jr. memorial in Washington D.C. is carved from 179 blocks of what rock?
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Obsidian is not a rock, or a mineral. It is a ____________________. |
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| porous surface (holes) shows gases escaped as it cooled on the surface |
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What feature of pumice gives you a clue that it is an extrusive igneous rock?
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Which of the following best describes intrusive igneous rock?
A. forms as magma cools.
B. cools slowly, so rocks have large crystals.
C.makes some of the strongest, longest lasting rock on the planet
D. all of the above |
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95% of the rock on Earth is sedimentary. |
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| This is a science that explores the history of Earth and its life, especially through rocks. |
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Granite and gabbro are examples of intrusive igneous rock. |
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