Download Metamorphic Rock and Rock Cycle Unit Study Guide

Metamorphic Rock and Rock Cycle Unit Study Guide
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Rock Cycle:
Melting & cooling
If a statement is true according to the diagram, circle the check box. If not, rewrite it below to make it true.
Only sedimentary rock gets weathered and eroded
Sedimentary rocks are made from rock fragments from all three rock types and minerals.
Heat and pressure create igneous rocks
Metamorphic rocks are created by melting and cooling.
Uplift only happens when metamorphic rocks weather and erode.
A metamorphic rock can’t become igneous without melting first
After weathering and erosion, rock has to go through deposition, compaction and cementation
to become sedimentary.
Metamorphic, igneous, and/or sedimentary rocks can undergo heat and pressure and become
metamorphic.
If a rock exists at the surface of Earth, the next step it must go through in its cycle is weathering.
In one sentence, write a brief summary of the rock cycle:
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Metamorphic Rock:
Circle the non-foliated metamorphic rock. Put a box around the foliated.
Complete the table below, by putting the type of rock (igneous, sedimentary, metamorphic) being described in
the first column. Use the clues given in the other columns.
Rock Type
Texture
Composition
coarse-grained
mica, quartz,
and feldspar
mediumgrained
sand in quartz
cement
foliated
biotite mica
coarse-grained
marine fossils
in calcite
cement
What do we call a layered or banded texture formed when minerals realign in metamorphic rock?
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List the parent rock of each of the following metamorphic rocks:
gneiss _____________________________ marble ______________________________
slate _______________________________ quartzite _____________________________
Where does metamorphism take place? Why? ___________________________________________________
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What is the meaning of the word metamorphic? __________________________________________________
What geologic events can cause metamorphism? __________________________________________________