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Who do you call someone who studies ice?
What is glaciologist?
The process of rocks being broken down into smaller pieces?
What is weathering?
What is color?
It is what you see
Molten rock that has reached the surface of the crust.
What is lava?
Rock that forms from materials on the Earth's surface.
What is sedimentary rock?
How does weathering happen?
What is rain, wind, natural disasters, plants, ice, animals and humans.
How do you measure hardness of a mineral? Give an example of a level 1 soft mineral and level 10 hard mineral.
What is Mohs scale of hardness; talc and diamond
Parent rock is limestone, and is medium/coarse and non foliated.
What is marble?
Formed when magma from a volcano cools and turns to rock.
What is igneous rock?
The scientists who study rocks are called?
What is geologist?
The movement of rock pieces from one place to another place?
What is erosion?
What is luster?
Tells how shiny/dull/Earthy and reflection of light
Shale, sandstone, and limestone are types of sedimentary rocks that often contain _________.
What is fossils?
Both igneous rock and sedimentary rock can turn into a metamorphic rock. What two conditions are necessary for that to happen?
What is heat and pressure?
What helps break down a rock to make it change?
What is weather and water?
How can rocks move?
What is water, river, wind, humans, animals, ice, natural disaster, oceans and landslides?
What is cleavage?
Split/break the mineral into pieces, sheets, clean breaks and/or clumps
Shale turns into _______ and limestone turns into __________.
What is slate and marble?
Rock type formed from heat and pressure.
What is metamorphic rock?
What is one of the slowest agents of mechanical weathering?
What is plant growth?
What is streak? Give me an example.
The color of the mineral when scratched on a streak plate. Ex. pyrite (fools gold) scratches black and gold scratches yellow.
Formed when layers of mud and clay are pressed together.
What is shale?