Minerals
Rocks
Rock Cycle
Breaking Rocks
Types of Weathering
100
The color of the powder of a mineral
What is streak?
100
Intrusive and Extrusive
What are the two types of Igneous Rocks?
100
Processes that recycle and change Earth's rocks
What is the Rock Cycle?
100
The process of breaking down rocks
What is weathering?
100
The physical breakdown of rocks
What is Mechanical Weathering?
200
The least reliable property of a mineral
What is color?
200
Sedimentary rocks made from compaction or cementation
What are Clastic Sedimentary rocks?
200
Rocks that form from intense heat and pressure
What are Metamorphic Rocks?
200
Made by weathering
What is sediment?
200
The chemical breakdown of rocks
What is Chemical Weathering?
300
The hardest mineral on Moh's hardness scale
What is diamond?
300
Metamorphic rocks that form layers
What are Foliated Metamorphic rocks?
300
Made by weathering.
What is sediment?
300
The process of the natural movement of sediment from one place to another
What is erosion?
300
The breakdown of rocks caused by humans, plants, or animals
What is Biological Weathering?
400
Two main types of luster
What is metallic and non-metallic?
400
Coarse-grained, formed from magma
What is an Intrusive Igneous Rock?
400
Weathering, Compaction, Cementation
What are the processes required to make Sedimentary Rocks?
400
The laying down of sediment
What is deposition?
400
Abrasion
What is the breaking down of rocks caused by rocks scraping against each other or something else?
500
Definition of a Mineral
What is an inorganic solid, that has a definite chemical composition and crystalline structure?
500
Contains organic material
What is an Organic Sedimentary Rock?
500
Melting, Cooling, Crystallization
What are the processes that form Igneous rocks?
500
Wind, running water, ice, plants, animals
What are things that cause weathering?
500
Weathering caused by iron, water and oxygen mixing
What is oxidation?
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