This can cool and harden and form igneous rock.
What is magma or lava?
These are little pieces of rocks, pebbles, mineral grains, and shell fragments that eventually form rocks.
What are sediments?
Magma is found____
What is underground?
Name the three types of rock groups.
What is Sedimentary, Igneous and Metamorphic?
The process of rocks changing from one kind of rock to another kind of rock over long periods of time.
What is the rock cycle?
This type of rock is formed when heat and pressure change a different kind of rock.
What is Metamorphic Rock?
These are two ways that sediments are formed.
What is weathering and erosion?
What is the science in which earthquakes are studied?
What is seismology?
A fossil is ___________.
What is the imprint of an organism on a rock?
Name two ways people use rocks.
What is buildings, walls, roads, jewelry, decoration, countertops?
This type of igneous rock forms when lava cools on the Earth's surface.
What is igneous rock?
These 2 things cause metamorphic rocks to form.
What are heat and pressure?
This is the most common materials found on earth.
What is a rock?
A naturally occurring, inorganic solid, that has a definite chemical composition and crystal structure.
What is a mineral?
What happens if an igneous rock weathers? What rock does it turn into?
What is sedimentary rock?
This type of igneous rock is black with a glassy texture. We looked at it in class.
What is sedimentary rock?
For an Igneous rock to become a sedimentary rock, what needs to happen?
What is weathering, erosion, compaction, and cementation?
What part of the United States has the highest Earthquake Hazard level?
What is California?
A hard substance composed of one or more minerals.
What is a rock?
The hardest mineral.
What is a diamond?
This is the process that turns magma into igneous rock.
Cooling
This type of sedimentary rock that can contain fossils.
Organic or Inorganic
What is organic?
What is the measurement of the strength of an earthquake called?
What is magnitude?
This type of igneous rock is black with a glassy texture. We looked at it in class.
What is obsidian?
The 5 ways to test the properties of a mineral.
What is luster, streak, hardness, color and cleavage or fracture