Volcanic glass.
What is obsidian?
The is the process of sediment moving from one place to another.
What is Erosion?
This is how metamorphic rock is formed.
What is heat and pressure?
When sediments go under compacting and cementing processes they become___________
These are minerals that are mined for profit if they are found pure enough.
What are ores?
This is the solid piece of rock under the soil horizons.
What is bedrock?
This is molten rock found below the earth's surface.
What is magma?
The processes that turn sediments into sedimentary rocks?
What is lithification?
This is the rock that we get when any rock is exposed to high heat and pressure.
What is metamorphic rock?
When igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks go under weathering they become_________________
What is sediments?
These are ways that animals depend on soil.
What is for their homes and to grow their food?
This is the layer of dead organic life that is only found in some places.
What is humus?
Igneous rocks are categorized as _________ or _________, depending on where the molten rock cooled.
What are extrusive and intrusive.
Sedimentary rock made from bits of other rocks that sits in visible layers.
What is clastic?
metamorphic rock with bands or layers
What is foliated?
The processes that turn metamorphic rocks into sediments
What is weathering?
2nd planet from the sun
What is Venus?
This horizon is also called Regolith.
What is C Horizon?
This is molten rock found above the earth's surface.
What is lava?
This type of sedimentary rock forms when dead plants and animal remains accumulate and then cement together.
What is organic sedimentary rock?
BONUS: What does sandstone turn into when exposed to heat and pressure?
What is quartzite?
_________ and ____________ turn sedimentary rocks into metamorphic rocks.
Heat and pressure
The following items can be made from minerals:
- Electronics
- Jewelry
- Toothpaste
- Trees
What are electronics, jewelry, and toothpaste?
This is the soil horizon with no organic life.
What is the C horizon?
__________ igneous rocks have larger crystals than the other kind of igneous rocks.
What is intrusive?
Type of sedimentary rock is from evaporated or precipitated solutions.
What is chemical?
This is a nice type of foliated metamorphic rock.
What is Gneiss?
When metamorphic and igneous rocks go under melting they turn into__________
What is magma?
This mineral is mined based on its beauty and not its usefulness.
What is a gemstone?
This horizon has the most organic life in it's soil.
What is A Horizon or Topsoil?