Chapter 4 Flashcards
What is the series of processes in which a rock forms, changes from one type to another, is destroyed, and forms again by geological process?
Rock Cycle
What is the process by which wind, water, ice, or gravity transports soil and sediment from one location to another?
Erosion
What is the process in which material is laid down?
Deposition
What is the chemical makeup of a rock; describes either the minerals or other minerals in the rock?
Composition
What is the quality of a rock that is based on the sizes, shapes, and positions of the rock’s grains?
Texture
What is rock formed from the cooling and solidification of magma beneath the Earth’s surface?
Intrusive igneous rock
What is rock that forms as a result of volcanic activity at or near the Earth’s surface?
Extrusive igneous rock
What are layers of rock?
Strata (singular- stratum)
What is the process in which sedimentary rocks are arranged in layers?
Stratification
What is the texture of metamorphic rock in which the mineral grains are arranged in planes or bands?
Foliated
What is the texture of metamorphic rock in which e mineral grains are not arranged in planes or bands?
Nonfoliated
What is a naturally occurring solid mixture of one or more minerals or organic matter?
Rock
