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=Section 5.1 Classifying Rocks=

Volcabulary

 * texture**- the looks and feels of a rock.
 * grains**-something that gives rock its texture, such as peices of minerals and other rock.
 * igneous rock**- a rock created by the cooling of magma, lava,or molten rock.
 * sedimentary rock-** a rock created by peices of other rock or the remains of plants and animals,crushed,pressed and cemented together.
 * metamorphic rock-** a rock made when an already made rock changes from heat and pressure, or chemical reaction.

Introduction

 * The moon and Earth;same building blocks

How Geologists Classify Rocks

 * texture
 * grain size
 * fine-grained
 * Slate
 * coarse-grained
 * Diorite
 * grain shape
 * rounded grain
 * Conglomerate
 * jagged grain
 * Breccia
 * grain pattern
 * banded
 * Gneiss
 * nonbanded
 * Quartzite
 * no visible grain
 * Flint
 * mineral composition
 * origin
 * igneous
 * sedimentary
 * metamorphic