Layers of the Earth
Mineral Formation
Characteristics of Minerals
Rock Cycle
Rocks
100
The layers of earth in order from the surface.
What is crust, mantle, outer core, and inner core?
100
The most unreliable thing to use to classify a mineral.
What is color?
100
When a mineral does not split evenly or regularly.
What is fracture?
100
Process that happens to make sedimentary rock from sediment.
What is compaction and cementation?
100
Rock formed by compaction and cementation of sediment.
What is a sedimentary rock?
200
They increase as you move closer to the core.
What do pressure and temperature do?
200
Water plus a dissolved substance is....
What is a solution?
200
The scale used to measure mineral hardness.
What is the Mohs hardness scale?
200
Breaks down all types of rocks into sediment.
What is weathering and erosion?
200
Rock formed by magma cooling inside the crust of the earth.
What are intrusive igneous rocks?
300
The two layers of the mantel.
What are the lithosphere and asthenosphere?
300
The mineral found in a pencil.
What is graphite?
300
The color of a mineral in powdered form.
What is mineral streak?
300
Formed by molten rock being expelled from a volcano.
What is extrusive igneous rock?
300
Rock formed by slowly cooling magma shown here.
What is an intrusive igneous rock?
400
The layer made mostly of liquid iron and nickel.
What is the outer core?
400
Determines a crystal's shape.
What is the arrangement of atoms?
400
The two main types of mineral luster.
What are metallic and non-metallic?
400
The two processes that are required for a igneous rock to become a sedimentary rock.
What are weathering and erosion then compaction and cementation?
400
The type of rock shown here.
What is igneous rock?
500
A rock begins to heat up, it starts to rise, when it gets close to the surface it begins to cool causing it to sink back down.
What are the steps of convection?
500
The five characteristics of a mineral.
What are Naturally occurring, Inorganic, Definite Chemical Composition, Crystalline form and solid.
500
Small or no crystals form in the lava or magma.
What happens when lava cools quickly?
500
The three types of weathering.
What are Biological, Chemical and Mechanical?
500
Remains of dead plants and animals can become trapped under the sediments and preserved as the layers form.
Why can sedimentary rock sometimes contain fossils?