Properties of Rocks
When you describe a rocks as white, this is the property you are using.
What is color?
Igneous rocks form when this happens.
What is melted rock hardens?
Limestone is an example of this kind of rock.
What is sedimentary?
These are the 2 types of weathering.
What is physical and chemical?
This is a landform that is formed by water over time.
What is canyon?
I can scratch my rock with a fingernail and a penny describes which property.
What is hardness?
This is how rocks are classified.
What is how they were formed (origin)? OR by their properties?
Marble is an example of this type of rock.
What is Metamorphic?
This is how chemical and physical weathering are the same.
What is they both break down rocks into smaller pieces?
This wears away and transports earth materials by water, wind, or ice.
What is erosion?
When you describe a rock as dull or shiny.
What is luster?
Name the 3 major classifications of rocks
What are Sedimentary, Metamorphic, and Igneous?
This type of rock may contain a fossil or a shell.
What is sedimentary?
Describe how water and freezing temperature will weather rock.
What is water freezes in cracks and expands causing cracks to get larger?
This landform is formed by sedimentation of differently layers of rock, soil, etc.
What is a butte or mountain?
When you describe a rock as bumpy or smooth.
What is texture?
This is what happens to a rock to cause a rock to change into a metamorphic rock.
What is heat and pressure?
A rock that is shiny, black and very hard.
What is an igneous rock?
These are the 4 processes that slowly changes Earth’s surface.
What are physical and chemical weathering, erosion, and deposition?
How were the Badlands formed?
What is through millions of years, water and rocks.
This scale is based on relative harness of common minerals and objects.
What is Mohs Scale?
Rocks are made up of these that can not be broken down.
What are minerals?
Name the cycle that rocks go through starting with deposition....
Deposition, Sedimentation, Compaction and Cementation
Name 2 rapid processes that can affect landforms.
What are landslide, earthquake, volcano or flash flood?