What is a solid that is naturally occurring, inorganic, and has a crystal structure, and definite chemical composition?
100
Rock and mineral fragments that are loose or suspended in water.
What is Sediments?
100
Molten rock inside Earth.
Molten rock that erupts onto Earth's surface.
What is Magma and Lava?
100
Results when uneven pressure cause flat minerals to line up, giving the rock a layered appearance.
What is Foliation?
100
Describe the process of sedimentary rock to metamorphic rock.
What is sedimentary rock is pushed down into earth, heat and pressure is added?
200
The difference between crystal structure and crystallization.
What is crystal structure refers to the internal atomic structure of crystalline substances, while crystallization is the process by which crystalline substances form?
200
Igneous rock is ranked as the Most, Middle, or Least abundant rock on Earth.
What is most?
200
How do metamorphic rocks form?
What is form when parent rocks are squeezed, heated, or exposed to hot fluids, rocks do not melt, they remain solid, but texture and composition of parent rock changes.
200
Describe the process of igneous to sedimentary rock.
What is weathering and erosion occurs to the igneous rock forming sediment, sediment is deposited, compacted and cemented to make sedimentary rock.
300
Two ways minerals can break.
What is fracture and cleavage?
300
Texture and Composition of Sedimentary Rocks
What is Fine-grained or coarse-grained, grains are either fine or coarse. Composition depends on minerals from which the sediment was formed.
300
What are the two types of Igneous Rocks, and where are they found or made?
What is Intrusive (deep inside earth from molten magma) and Extrusive (on Earths surface from erupting volcanoes)?
300
What are the two types of metamorphic rocks?
What is foliated and non-foliated.
300
Describe the process of igneous, to sedimentary, back to igneous.
What is weathering and erosion, then the sediment is deposited back to a low lying area where it is compacted by the above layers and cemented together.
400
Characteristics of Minerals
What is Naturally Made, Inorganic, Solid, Fixed Composition, Fixed Chemical Structure?
400
The process through which sediment turns into rock.
What is the process of rock cycle from sedimentary back to sedimentary.
What is sedimentary is broken down through weather and erosion deposited in low lying areas, compacted by upper layers and cemented together by minerals such as calcite and quarzite.
500
Identification techniques for minerals.
What is color, hardness, luster, streak, breakage?