Properties of Rocks
Rock Cycle
Guess that rock/mineral!
Weathering
Landforms
100
When you describe a rocks as white, this is the property you are using.
What is color?
100
Rocks are made of these that cannot be broken down any further.
What are minerals?
100
Limestone, which is composed mainly of skeletal fragments of marine organisms such as coral, forams and molluscs, is an example of this kind of rock.
What is sedimentary?
100
These are the 2 types of weathering.
What is physical and chemical?
100
This is a landform that is formed by water over time.
What is canyon?
200
I can scratch my rock with a fingernail and a penny describes which property.
What is hardness?
200
This is how rocks are classified.
What is how they were formed (origin)? OR by their properties?
200
Granite and Basalt are examples of this type of rock.
What is Igneous?
200
This is how chemical and physical weathering are the same.
What is they both break down rocks into smaller pieces?
200
This wears away and transports earth materials by water, wind, or ice.
What is erosion?
300
When a mineral breaks along a smooth, flat surface it shows this.
What is cleavage?
300
Name the 3 major classifications of rocks
What are Sedimentary, Metamorphic, and Igneous?
300
This type of rock may contain a fossil or a shell.
What is sedimentary?
300
Describe how water and freezing temperature will change a rock through weathering.
What is water freezes in cracks and expands causing cracks to get larger?
300
This landform is formed by deposition at the end of a stream.
What is a delta?
400
Rubbing a mineral across a white tile shows this.
What is streak?
400
This is what happens to a rock to cause a rock to change into a metamorphic rock.
What is heat and pressure?
400
If the rock fizzed when it is placed in vinegar, it contains this mineral.
What is calcite?
400
Name one of the 4 processes that slowly changes Earth’s surface.
What are physical weathering, chemical weathering, erosion, and deposition?
400
This landform is a piece of land that extends into the ocean and is surrounded by water on three sides.
What is a peninsula?
500
This scale is based on relative harness of common minerals and objects.
What is Mohs Scale?
500
Igneous rocks form when this happens.
What is melted rock hardens?
500
The patterned structure that minerals have.
What are crystals?
500
Acid rain is an example of this type of weathering
Chemical weathering
500
Name 2 rapid processes that can affect landforms.
What are landslide, earthquake, volcano or flash flood?
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