Minerals
Rock Cycle
Sedimentary
Igneous
Metamorphic
100
Rubbing a mineral across a white, unglazed tile produces this
What is a streak?
100
Process in which changes rock deep in the earth
What is heat and pressure?
100
Most sedimentary rocks are formed here.
What are oceans?
100
This rock cooled so fast it turned to glass
What is obsidian?
100
Process in which changes rock deep in the earth
What is heat and pressure?
200
This scale is based upon the relative hardness of common minerals and objects.
What is Moh's Scale of Hardness?
200
Rocks are made of these
What are minerals?
200
Process in which rock forms, changes from one type to another, is destroyed, and forms again by geologic processes
What is the rock cycle?
200
The cooling rate of magma affects this of igneous rocks
What is texture?
200
A change in the shape of a rock caused by a force placed on it
What is deformation?
300
When a mineral breaks along a flat surface it shows this property.
What is cleavage?
300
These are rocks formed from the solidification of magma.
What is an igneous rock?
300
This bioclastic sedimentary rock is made from plant remains
What is coal?
300
Long cracks in the Earth's crust in which lava can flow
What are fissure?
300
Foliated and Non-foliated describes this characteristic of a metamorphic rock
What is texture?
400
These minerals make up most of the Earth's crust.
What are silicates?
400
These rocks are formed through compaction and cementation.
What is a sedimentary Rock?
400
This sedimentary rock looks like cement
What is a conglomerate?
400
liquid rock produced under the Earth's surface
What is magma?
400
This happens to rocks when heated by magma
What is metamorphism?
500
This mineral is the building block of many rocks.
What is quartz?
500
Metamorphic rocks can be naturally made from these types of rock.
What is a metamorphic, igneous or sedimentary rock?
500
This material is found in sedimentary rocks
What are fossils?
500
This form of igneous rock is common around volcanoes.
What is an Extrusive igneous rock?
500
When heat and pressure is added to shale, this metamorphic rock is derived
What is slate?
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