Minerals are Amazing
This is a naturally occurring, inorganic solid with a definite crystal structure.
What is a Mineral
Name the three major classes of rocks.
What is igneous, sedimentary, and Metamorphic
The principle behind this is that rocks are never created nor destroyed, but are recycled.
What is the Rock Cycle
Tectonic Plates sit on this layer of the Earth.
What is the Mantle
Type of boundary that forms mid-ocean ridges
What is divergent
This is a solid in which the atoms are arranged in repeating patterns
What is a Crystal
This type/class of rock arises from the transformation/change of existing rock types. Heat and pressure are applied for this change to occur.
What is Metamorphic
This is the type of rock where fossils are found.
What is Sedimentary
Plate tectonics move because of
convection currents
Name when all the continents were joined together
What is Pangaea
The property of a mineral that is about the way it reflects light (e.g. metallic or matte)
What is lustre?
Igneous rocks formed cooled lava are called.
What is extrusive igneous rocks
This is type of rock looks like black glass
What is obsidian
Name of boundary when two plates slide past each other
What is transform boundary
When two continental crusts collide they form?
what are fold mountains
Acid test will react with what substance
What is carbonate or calcite e.g. limestone
Rocks formed form sediments that have been compacted and cemented together
What are sedimentary rocks
Identify the series of geologic processes that can transform sediment into shale and shale into slate
What is compacting and cementing, heat and pressure
A boundary where the plates are pulling apart
What is divergent
Heat from the core creates these in the mantle.
What are Convection Currents.
The property of a mineral that breaks in a set pattern
What is a cleavage
Name the 5 processes that can change rock.
What is heat and pressure, melting, cooling, weathering and erosion, and compacting and cementing.
This is the type of rock formed from the slow cooling of magma under or within the Earth's surface.
What is Intrusive Igneous
This is the name of the zone where crust dives down into the mantle. (one plate is pushed under another)
What is Subduction Zone
This is the type of plate boundary that forms where two plates collide and one subducts.
What is Convergent (oceanic - continental or oceanic - oceanic) Boundary.