Minerals
Rock Cycle
Sedimentary
Igneous
Metamorphic
100
Rubbing a mineral across a white unglazed tile produces this.
What is a streak?
100
Rocks are made of these.
What are minerals?
100
Most sedimentary rocks are formed at the bottom of this.
What is the ocean?
100
This rock is made from quartz and feldspar.
What is granite?
100
When shale is exposed to heat and pressure without melting, this rock is formed.
What is slate?
200
When a mineral breaks along a flat surface it shows what property?
What is cleavage?
200
This is how rocks are classified or put into categories.
What is how they are formed?
200
These rocks have layers.
What are sedimentary rocks?
200
This rock cooled so fast it turned to glass.
What is basalt or obsidian?
200
When you apply heat and pressure to a sedimentary rock you get this type of rock.
What is metamorphic rock?
300
This scale is based upon the hardness of common minerals and objects.
What is the Mohs scale?
300
These rocks are formed from the hardening of lava or magma.
What are igneous rocks?
300
This rock is made up of tiny bits of quartz sand.
What is sandstone?
300
If a rock cools too quickly it will have few or none of these.
What are crystals?
300
These rocks can form from sedimentary or igneous rocks.
What are metamorphic rocks?
400
Rocks are made up of one or more of these.
What are minerals?
400
The natural process that breaks rock into small pieces is called this.
What is weathering?
400
Decaying bones and leaves can form these.
What are fossils?
400
The word igneous means this.
What is fire?
400
If heat and pressure are applied to limestone, this type of rock forms.
What is marble?
500
This is a common mineral that forms many rocks.
What is mica?
500
Metamorphic rocks can be naturally made from these types of rocks.
What are sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic rocks?
500
Sedimentary rocks have many of these.
What are layers?
500
When looking at a fossil scientists can tell more about how these things lived.
What are animals?
500
You need these two things to form a metamorphic rock.
What are heat and pressure?
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