Ignorant Igneous
This is molten rock found below the earth's surface.
What is magma?
The tiny fragments of rock that form sedimentary rocks.
What is sediment?
These are the conditions that form a metamorphic rock
What are heat and pressure?
When sediments go under compacting and cementing processes they become___________
What is sedimentary rocks.
This is the most obvious and easily understood trait used to identify rocks.
What is Color?
This type of igneous rock forms BENEATH the Earth's surface.
What is slow-cooling igneous rock?
This is molten rock found above the earth's surface.
What is lava?
The processes that turn sediments into sedimentary rocks?
What are compaction and cementation?
These types of metamorphic rock have no banding on them
What are non-foliated
When igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks go under weathering and erosion they become_________________
What is sediments?
This quality tells you about the way light reflects (or doesn't) from the surface of the mineral.
What is Luster?
This is a diagram of rocks and the processes that create them
What is the rock cycle?
Igneous rocks are categorized as _________ or _________, depending on where the molten rock cooled.
What are slow cooling and fast cooling
Sedimentary rocks are most often found in these two types of places.
What are rivers and mountains?
The layers in metamorphic rock commonly look like this
What is wavy or like ribbons?
The processes that turn metamorphic rocks into sediments
What are weathering and eroding?
This trait refers to the tendency of some minerals to break in flat planes?
What is cleavage?
This type of rock often forms in layers because it's made of pieces.
What is sedimentary?
The type of igneous rock formed is the result of where and how it __________
What is cooled?
This is something that can often be found in sedimentary rocks if an organism was trapped within the layers.
What is a fossil?
This metamorphic rock is commonly used in countertops
What is marble?
_________ and ____________ turn sedimentary rocks into metamorphic rocks.
Heat and pressure
This is measured on the Moh's scale.
What is the hardness?
The study of the Earth.
What is geology?
The process that forms igneous rocks is called
What is cooling and hardening?
This sedimentary rock makes up the bulk of Florida
What is Limestone?
This metamorphic rock was commonly used in chalk boards.
What is slate?
When metamorphic and igneous rocks go under melting they turn into__________
What is magma?
This physical property is defined as the color of a mineral in powder form.
What is streak?
The process of rock being left in another place after erosion.
What is deposition?