Rocks
Rock Types
Weathering
Erosion
Mixed Bag
100
Rocks are made up of one or more types of these.
What are minerals?
100
Forms when pieces of older rocks, plants and other loose materials get pressed together.
What is sedimentary rock?
100
The process by which natural forces break down rocks.
What is weathering?
100
The process in which weathered particles are picked up and moved from one place to another.
What is erosion?
100
The center layer of the Earth.
What is the inner core?
200
How rocks are made.
What is naturally through Earth's processes.
200
Forms when molten (hot) rock cools and becomes solid.
What is igneous rock?
200
When water freezes and expands in cracks of rocks, this happens.
What is ice wedging?
200
The part of erosion where sediment is placed in a new location, or deposited.
What is deposition?
200
A naturally formed, solid substance that has a definite chemical makeup and a crystal structure.
What is a mineral?
300
The set of natural processes that form, change, break down and re-form rocks.
What is the rock cycle?
300
Forms as heat and pressure causes change usually resulting in a layered or banded rock.
What is metamorphic rock?
300
The part of a plant that can cause rocks to crack.
What are roots?
300
The force that pulls object down.
What is gravity?
300
The location where most of the Earth's volcanoes occur.
What is the ring of fire?
400
The layer of Earth that all the rocks, animals and plants live on.
What is the crust?
400
The magma inside a volcano slowly cooled into rock. What type of rock is this?
What is igneous rock?
400
The name for the way water breaks down and smooths out rocks.
What is abrasion?
400
The three ways that erosion occurs or how rock sediment moves.
What is water, wind and ice?
400
Name the country where the ash from an erupting volcano cancelled flights to and from Europe.
What is Iceland?
500
Rocks are so common that they are used for many purposes. Name 2 different ways people use rocks.
What is for houses, buildings, statues, art, roads, and for sources of minerals.
500
25% of the entire crust is made up of this type of rock.
What is sedimentary rock?
500
The process in which layers or sheets of rock gradually break off. (People do this to remove dead skin from their face and body)
What is exfoliation?
500
The downhill movement of large amounts or masses of rock and soil.
What is mass wasting?
500
The name of the scale we used to find the mass of gum and other objects.
What is a triple beam balance?
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