Mineral
Rock Cycle
Rock Types
Rock Features
Other
100
Gem
What is a highly prized mineral
100
Sediments
What are loose materials such as rock fragments, mineral grains, and bits of shells that have been moved by wind, ice, water, or gravity.
100
Igneous rocks
What are rocks that form from cooling magma
100
Ripple marks
What do sediments which have been in moving water create? These form in sedimentary rocks
100
Parent rock of schist
What is slate
200
hardness
What is how easily a mineral can be scratched
200
Lithification
What are sediments that are made into a rock through cementation
200
Extrusive Rocks
What are rocks that form from magma above the surface; cannot see mineral grains; cools quickly
200
Mudcracks
What does dried mud create
200
green, grey, white speckled, fizzes (name the rock)
What is chemical limestone
300
Crystal
What is a solid in which the atoms are arranged in orderly, repeating patterns.
300
melted rock under the Earth's surface and above the Earth's surface
What is magma and lava?
300
detrital, clastic
What are rocks have granular texture and weathered and make conglomerate/breccia
300
Fossils
What are aged by-products of animals that were formed into rocks over millions of years
300
parent rocks of gneiss
What are granite and schist
400
Specific gravity
What is the ratio of a minerals weight compared to the weight of an equal volume of water
400
Compaction
What is when sediments are very small and stick together to form solid rock
400
Metamorphic Rocks
What are rocks which have been heated and possibly pressured
400
foliation
What is the layering of minerals in regional metamorphic rocks
400
Visible and invisible differences between contact and regional rocks
What are layering and bake zone
500
Ore
What is a mineral or a rock that contains a useful substance that can be mined for a profit
500
Cementation
What is when sediments are too large to only be compressed, minerals act as a natural glue to hold them together
500
Sedimentary rocks
What are rocks which are composed of compressed and possibly cemented sediments
500
(sharp pebbles)
What are arkose rocks made from
500
layering of sedimentary rocks
What is stratification
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