Minerals
Galena and Pyrite have this type of luster.
What is metallic?
Metamorphic rocks have gone through a _______ from another rock.
What is a change?
Alfred Wegener proposed this theory about how the earth used to look.
What is continental drift?
The process of weathered rock moving from one place to another.
What is erosion?
These are four ways you would test for an unknown mineral.
What is streak, luster, magnet, hardness?
the two ways to describe where an igneous rock was formed
intrusive or extrusive
This type of rock has layers of sand, rocks, or sediment that have piled up over many years.
What is sedimentary?
This included solid, melted rock inside earth. It also includes soil , rock and landforms on Earth’s surface.
What is the geosphere?
These are the three types of erosion that can happen.
What is wind, water, ice or gravity?
diamond
What is the hardest mineral on Mohs Hardness Scale?
how igneous rocks are made
What is cooling and hardening of lava or magma?
This type of rock can only form at the surface.
What is sedimentary?
These are the four layers of earth starting with under our feet...
What is the crust, mantle, outer core, inner core?
When glaciers are scraping rocks as they move over them, what is this called?
What is the streak test?
The rock that can float and has many bubbles inside it?
What is pumice?
the way rocks change from one type to another is
What is the rock cycle?
the movement of sediment to a different area
What is erosion?
the tool that would scratch a mineral that would be a hardness of 3 or 4.
What is a penny?
The meaning of the word igneous.
What is ignite?
These remains of once living organisms can be found in sedimentary rocks
What are fossils?
These are the 3 fast changes and the 3 slow changes on earth's surface we discussed.
What are volcanoes, earthquakes, and landslides...and what is weathering, deposition and erosion?
When a delta forms at the mouth of a river, what is this called?
What is deposition?