This is molten rock found below the earth's surface.
What is magma?
Sedimentary rock made from bits of other rocks.
What is clastic?
how do you turn an igneous rock into metamorphic?
heat and pressure
When sediments go under compacting and cementing processes they become___________
what is the hardest mineral?
diamond
a resource that can be used again
renewable
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?
weathering and erosion
What is sediments?
how do we test the powder color of mineral?
streak test
fossil fuels
non renewable
Igneous rocks are categorized as _________ or _________, depending on where the molten rock cooled.
What are extrusive and intrusive.
What type of sedimentary rock is limestone?
non clastic
metamorphic rock with bands or layers
What is foliated?
The processes that turn metamorphic rocks into sediments
What are weathering and eroding?
how the light reflects off the mineral
luster
a con of wind turbines
__________ igneous rocks have larger crystals than the other kind of igneous rocks.
What is intrusive?
This type of sedimentary rocks form when dead plants and animal remains accumulate and then cemented together?
What is organic or biogenic sedimentary rock?
Limestone is the parent rock of this metamorphic rock.
What is marble?
_________ and ____________ turn sedimentary rocks into metamorphic rocks.
Heat and pressure
why is color not a good mineral identification?
the same minerals can be different colors
coal is.....
non renewable
Volcanic glass.
What is obsidian?
Type of sedimentary rock is from evaporated solutions
What is chemical?
This metamorphic rock is often used in pool tables.
What is slate?
When metamorphic and igneous rocks go under melting they turn into__________
What is magma?
a scale 1 - 10 that tests the hardness of a mineral
mohs hardness scale
water is....
renewable