Minerals
True or False: Most minerals are compounds
What is True?
What is sediment?
Igneous rocks can be found around or in these
What is a volcano?
Metamorphic means to?
What is change?
Water, wind, heat and ice break down rocks by what process?
What is weathering?
What affects the size of the crystals formed in magma?
What is rate, amount of gas, and chemical composition?
What is cemented?
Liquid rock found inside the earth is called what?
What is magma?
Metamorphic rock can be formed only where on the Earth? Inside/outside/either
What is inside?
Describe the process to sedimentary rock to metamorphic rock.
What is sedimentary rocks is pushed down into the earth, head and pressure is added?
Identification techniques for Minerals
What is color, hardness, luster, streak, and breakage?
The movement of sediment
What is erosion?
Magma that is pushed to the Earth's surface is called what?
What is lava?
These two things are required for a metamorphic rock to form.
Describe the process of igneous rock to sedimentary rock.
What is weathering and erosion occurs to the igneous rock forming sediment, sediment is deposited, compacted and cemented to make sedimentary rock.
How do minerals form?
What is crystallization of magma/lava and crystallization of materials dissolved in water?
Sedimentary rock often forms at the bottom of _______ as it deposited by rivers and streams
What is lakes or seas?
Igneous rocks can be classified into these two types.
What are intrusive (basalt) and extrusive (granite) rocks?
This is why metamorphic rock is great for building.
What is durable and strong?
Describe the process of igneous, to sedimentary, back to igneous.
What is weathering and erosion, then the sediment is deposited back to a low lying area where it is compacted by the above layers and cemented together.
WHat is the definition for a mineral?
What is a solid that is naturally occurring, inorganic, has a crystal structure, and a definite chemical compound?
Sedimentary rocks that have the shape of once living things.
What are fossils?
Igneous rock is ranked as the Most, Middle, or Least abundant rock on Earth
What is Most?
What are foliated and nonfoliated?
Draw the rock cycle
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