type of rock
Rock formed by the melting and cooling of magma or lava
What is igneous
A rock that has been broken down by freezing and thawing
What is Mechanical Weathering
How the mineral looks
What is color
Metamorphic Rock formation
What is heat and pressure
The hardest mineral
What is the diamond
Weather, erosion, deposition, cementation
What is sedimentary
A rock that has been broken down by acids in plant roots
What is Chemical Weathering
The color of the minerals powder
What is streak
Igneous rock formation
What is the melting and cooling of magma (lava)
Mass divided by volume
What is density
Only rock that can contain fossils
What is sedimentary
Rock that has been exposed to acid rain for a long time
What is chemical weathering
A minerals resistance to being scratched (finger nail, penny, glass)
What is hardness
The two processes that form sediment
What is weathering and erosion
The three types of rocks
What is sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic rock
Rock formed by heat and pressure
What is metamorphic
Rock that has been broken into smaller pieces
What is Mechanical weatering
How the mineral reflects light
What is luster
The final two steps in creating a sedimentary rock
What is deposition and cementation
The youngest layer of rock
What is the top layer
Rock that can be foliated or non-foliated
What is metamorphic
Rocks broken down by abrasion, exfoliation, frost action, organic activity, gravity
What is mechanical weathering
The two ways a mineral can break
What is cleavage and fracture
How rocks change into one another
What is the rock cycle
Rocks are classified by
What is how they are formed