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1. visits a cave regularly but must return to the surface for food

2. the most common type of coal, also known as 'soft coal'

3. What type of metamorphic rock is made up of layers like the leaves of a book?

4. Explain how a solution cave is formed? Is this an example of physical or chemical weathering? Why?

5. Identify the icicle-shaped features that form on cave ceilings

6. Which metamorphic rock began as shale, is very hard, and has leaflike layers?

7. a type of rock that forms when sand and mineral fragments have been pressed together

8. Over 75% of the earth's surface is cover with ________.

9. Identify the thin, hollow tubes that hang from the ceiling of many caves

10. Identify the smooth, round formations that occur when layers of calcium carbonate build up around a grain of sand in a shallow pool

11. the magnetic field produced by the earth

12. any hollow space in the earth's crust that has formed naturally and is large enough for a person to enter

13. designed to live either in a cave or above a cave

14. a hard, shiny, black coal; expensive to mine

15. Where does the earth's magnetic field come from? how does it remain 'magnetized'?

16. a type of rock that forms when molten rock solidifies

17. Which metamorphic rock is perhaps one of the most beautiful and most widely used, and began as limestone?

18. the poorest quality of coal, also known as 'brown coal'

19. small deposits of igneous and metamorphic crystals

20. Rock that has been changed by extreme heat or pressure into a new kind of rock is known as ________.

21. the area surrounding a magnet in which the force of the magnet affects other objects

22. the ends of a magnet

23. formed by the dissolving of underground rocks by water

24. What type of igneous rock remains in a pocket below the surface, cools slowly, and has a coarse-grained appearance?

25. Which sedimentary rock is used to make glass?