- Differentiate between extrusive (volcanic) and intrusive (plutonic) igneous rocks and processes
- Igneous Rocks: texture and composition
- Terms to describe magma/igneous rock composition
- Igneous Rock textures
- Know the igneous rocks by felsic/intermediate/mafic and phaneritic/aphanitic (the 6 main rocks = granite, diorite, gabbro, rhyolite, andesite, basalt)
- Definition, composition, and classification of magma/lava
- Situations that can cause a rock to melt; tectonic locations where these conditions exist
- Bowen’s Reaction Series: what it is and applications
- Igneous processes that create magmas of varying composition (magmatic differentiation)
- Forms of igneous intrusions; how magmas move through rocks
- Understand why we see intrusive igneous rocks at the surface of Earth
- What influences rate of cooling of magma and what effect does cooling rate have on igneous textures
Differentiate between extrusive (volcanic) and intrusive (plutonic) igneous rocks and processes
