Types of Rocks
Properties of Rocks
Rock Cycle
Landforms
Miscellaneous
100
An example of a sedimentary rock
What is limestone or sandstone?
100
Limestone fizzes when vinegar is put on it, indicating to a geologist that it has a certain mineral.
What is calcite?
100
Physical and chemical weathering are similar in a certain way
What is they both break rocks into smaller pieces
100
Sand dunes are affected mainly by this force of nature
What is wind?
100
The name for a basic type of earth material that cannot be broken down into any other type of earth material
What is a mineral?
200
An example of an igneous rock
What is basalt?
200
The property of a rock when it breaks, leaving a smooth, flat surface
What is cleavage?
200
Water freezes in cracks and expands, causing cracks in rocks to get larger. This is and example of...
What is weathering?
200
A process that breaks down landforms relatively slowly
What is chemical weathering?
200
The type of rock that can contain a fossil
What is sedimentary?
300
An example of another igneous rock
What is granite?
300
Of these four choices, which would help a geologist when he finds a rock: season of the year, time of day, size, or texture?
What is texture?
300
The causes for rocks being changed into metamorphic rocks
What are heat and pressure?
300
Wind and water do this to rocks
What is weathering?
300
If a river moves pebbles and sand from one place to another, the material that will get moved the farthest would be...
What is sand?
400
The type of rock formed from melted rock cooling down to form a solid.
What is igneous?
400
The type of rock that is made from little bits of other rock, sand, pebbles, etc.
What is sedimentary rock?
400
The landform formed by deposition
What is a delta?
400
The type of material that is most likely going to go out of a stream table with the water is sand or rocks?
What is sand?
500
All rocks started out being this type of rock
What is igneous?
500
A crystal that looks like a series of squares and an x?
What is salt?
500
A process that breaks down rock relatively slowly
What is chemical weathering?
500
List four rapid processes that break landforms
What are landslides, earthquakes, volcanoes, and flash floods?
500
Another word for weight
What is mass?
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