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1. What are the three major types of rocks?
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2. What type of things changes a sedimentary rock into a metamorphic rock?
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Pressure
Temperature
Heat
Both 1 and 2
Both 1 and 3
3. When any type of rock that is changed by heat, pressure, or fluids become what kind of rock?
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Metamorphic
Sedimentary
Igneous
4. When magma cools and hardens beneath the surface, what rock does it form?
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5. Processes on and near Earth's surface produce what kind of rock?
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6. How are extrusive igneous rocks formed?
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7. Rocks that form when magma hardens beneath Earth's surface are called what?
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8. The texture and composition are two characteristics used to classify what kinds of rocks?
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9. Slow cooling results in the formation of large crystals, is the texture of what type of igneous rock?
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10. Rapid cooling of magma or lava results in rock with, interconnected mineral grains, is the texture of what type of igneous rock?
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11. A large body of magma located deep within Earth may take tens of thousands of years to harden, Is the texture for what type of igneous rock?
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12. How does sedimentary rocks form?
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Cooling heat pressure
When soilds settle out of a fluid such as water or air.
Heat and pressure
13. Erosion involves what?
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14. The many unique features of sedimentary rocks are clues to what?
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How it was formed
To the texture
to how, when and where the rocks formed
15. Many different minerals are found in what type of sedimentary rock?
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16. Most _________ changes occur at elevated temperatures and pressures. These conditions are found a few kilometers below Earth's surface and extend into the upper mantle. What is this formation to?
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17. Heat, pressure, and hydrothermal solutions. Are what of Metamorphisn?
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18. Regional metamoephism results in what?
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19. What can the texture be for a metamorphic rock?
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20. A metamorphic rock that does not have a banded texture is called what?
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Foliated metamorphic rocks
Nonfoilated metamorphic rocks
Sedimentary rocks
Igneous rocks
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