Rocks
Properties
Weathering
Erosion
Rock Cycle
100
All rocks are made of these.
What is minerals?
100
This is the easiest property to identify.
What is colour?
100
Plants grow in the cracks to split the rocks.
What is biological weathering?
100
This is what mainly caused the hope slide.
What is gravity?
100
This comes out of a volcano.
What is lava?
200
Only pressure creates this kind of rock in layers.
What is sedimentary rock?
200
Some minerals break into smaller pieces unevenly or along flat surfaces.
What is cleavage?
200
These reactions break down rocks.
What is chemical weathering?
200
This is the movement of weathered rock materials from one place to another.
What is erosion?
200
This is hot molten rock under the earth's surface.
What is magma?
300
This type of igneous rock is found and created on the surface of the earth.
What is extrusive igneous rock?
300
This property is measured using a scratch plate.
What is streak colour?
300
Lichen causes this type of weathering.
What is biological weathering?
300
This is the layering down of sediments.
What is deposition?
300
This rock is formed from hardening of magma or lava.
What is igneous rock?
400
This type of rock is used for countertops and floors.
What is marble?
400
This is the name of the hardness scale.
What is the Mohs hardness scale?
400
This is an example of mechanical weathering.
What is ice wedging, sand storms, rocks carried by water or glacier striations?
400
A river fans out over a large area shaped like a triangle.
What is a delta?
400
All rocks go through this process to become sediment.
What is erosion and weathering?
500
Obsidian is this kind of rock.
What is intrusive igneous rock?
500
These two minerals looks the same, but have different colour streaks.
What is gold and pyrite?
500
This is the difference between weathering and erosion.
What is weathering breaks down rocks and erosion carries weathered materials?
500
This is a valley with a long narrow inlet.
What is a fiord?
500
Sedimentary rock and igneous rock become this type of rock.
What is metamorphic rock?
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