Rocks
Minerals
Rock Cycle
Weathering
Erosion
100
How are rocks classified?
What is "how they are formed"
100
What are most minerals made of?
What is crystals.
100
How do igneous rocks form?
Molten rock (magma or lava) cools and solidifies
100
What is the process in which rocks are broken down into fragments or pieces?
What is weathering
100
What is the process in which weathered material is moved?
What is erosion
200
What are rocks made of?
What is "1 or more minerals and/or may contain some organic matter"
200
Name 3 special properties that only some minerals have.
Magnetic, Acidity, Radioactive, Smell, Taste
200
What does the word "metamorphic" or "metamorphosis" mean?
Change
200
This is the process by which rocks are broken down but a new substance is not formed.
What is mechanical weathering
200
What type of rock is formed from eroded materials?
What is sedimentary rock
300
When igneous rocks form from lava, what type of rock is this?
What is "EXtrusive igneous rock"?
300
Name the hardest and softest minerals on Moh's Hardness Scale
Talc and Diamond
300
What is compacted and cemented to form sedimentary rock?
Sediment
300
This is process by which rocks are broken down and a new substance is formed
What is chemical weathering
300
What is the name for a large moving sheet of ice that erodes the ground around it?
What is glacier
400
What are the two forces that help to form metamorphic rocks?
What is heat and pressure?
400
Which property happens when minerals break in flat, even pieces.
Cleavage
400
Where are most sedimentary rocks found?
What is earth's crust
400
Name 3 types of mechanical weathering
What is animal activity, frost action, temperature change, root action
400
What is one of the two formations that form when wind erodes
What is loess or dunes
500
When an igneous rock cools slowly, describe how its crystals will look.
What is LARGE crystals!
500
Where are most minerals found?
In earth's crust
500
What is the process in which rocks "change, form and break down" called?
What is the ROCK CYCLE!
500
Name 3 ways rocks are chemically weathered
What is rainwater, when carbonic acid forms, when oxygen combines to form oxides
500
How do waves erode?
What is the back and forth movement of the water erodes and creates beaches
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