AKS 2b Rock Cycle
Rocks that form when rocks are subjected to high heat, high pressure, hot mineral-rich fluids or, more commonly, some combination of these factors.
What are Metamorphic Rocks?
This is the softest mineral.
What is Talc?
The breaking down or dissolving of rocks and minerals on the Earth's surface.
What is weathering?
This nutrient-rich substance is composed of decaying animals, such as insects, and other organisms, such as mushrooms.
What is Humus?
What is Solar Energy
This scale is used to measure the hardness of minerals.
What is the Moes Scale of Hardness?
The transportation or the movement of the weathered material.
What is Erosion?
This layer is a mixture of sand, silt, clay, and broken-down organic matter called humus. Humus is rich, highly decomposed organic matter mostly made from dead plants, crunched-up leaves, dead insects, and twigs.
What is Top Soil?
Form of renewable energy that uses the power of moving water
What is Hydro Energy?
When a mineral breaks along smooth planes in weak areas.
What Cleavage?
The dropping off of the weathered material.
What is Deposition?
This is the layer of soil under the topsoil on the surface of the ground.
What is Subsoil?
A renewable energy source because heat is continuously produced inside the earth.
What is Geothermal?
This process outlines how each of the three major rock types form and break down based on the different applications of heat and pressure over time.
What is the Rock Cycle?
These are the physical characteristics of minerals.
What are Luster, Color, Streak, Hardness, Fracture?
The acronym W.E.D. stands for.
Weather. Erosion and Deposition?
The hard, solid rock beneath surface materials such as soil and gravel. It is consolidated rock, meaning it is solid and tightly bound.
What is Bedrock?
The squeezing of air and water out of sediments and the pressing of the fragments together.
What is Compaction?
At a construction site, one of the workers found a rock made of organic material. What type of rock did the worker likely discover?.
What is Sedimentary rocks?
These are the 5 CHARACTERISTICS OF MINERALS.
What is naturally occurring, inorganic, solid, crystalline structure, and the same chemical composition throughout?
What are 3 forms of erosion?
Wind, Water, glacial, temperature, landslides?
This layer of rock is above the bedrock and beneath the subsoil.
What is Parent Rock?
Organic matter used as a fuel, especially in a power station for the generation of electricity?
What is Biomass?