Ignorant Igneous
She Sediment what?
Layers of the Earth
The Rock Cycle
Weathering the storm
Minerals
100
This is molten rock found below the earth's surface.
What is magma?
100
Tiny pieces of rock, sand, shells, etc. is called what
What is sediment?
100
The layers that make up the Earth are ___
Ocean crust, Continental crust, Asthenosphere, Mesosphere, Outer core, Inner core
100
When sediments go under compacting and cementing processes they become___________
What is sedimentary rocks.
100
The chemical and physical breakdown of rocks into sediment.
What is weathering?
100
How easy it is to be scratched
What is hardness?
200
Lava cooling quickly on the surface of the crust
What is an extrusive rock?
200
The final 2 processes that turn sediments into sedimentary rocks?
What are compaction and cementation?
200
Rocks with the lightest density are fround in _________ layer
Continental crust
200
When igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks go under weathering and eroding they become_________________
What is sediments?
200
Breaking of rock is __________ and Moving of rock is _______________
Weathering and Erosion
200
The amount of light that is reflected off the surface of a mineral
What is lustre?
300
Melted rock that cools quickly results in igneous rocks with what?
Small crystals
300
Minerals can act like _________, holding the rock together
cement
300
The thickest layer of the earth is
the mantle
300
The processes that turn metamorphic rocks into sediments
What are weathering and eroding?
300
Schist, Gneiss and Phyllite are _______________ rocks
Metamorphic
300
Minerals that glow under UV light
What is Floresence?
400
When magma does this it forms granite with large crystals
Cools slowly deep underground
400
Sandstone can form when layers of sand are buried and put under _____________.
pressure
400
The top part of the mantle and the crust form which layer of the geosphere?
the lithosphere
400
_________ and ____________ turn sedimentary rocks into metamorphic rocks.
Heat and pressure
400
What is Lava flow?
400
The softest natural mineral is _______ and the hardest natural mineral is _________
Talc, Diamond
500
Basalt is an igneous rock that is found in which layer of the earth?
ocean crust
500
Studying fossils of plants and animals
What two things are found in sedimentary rocks that scientists study to learn about the past?
500
What kind of currents flow slowly in the mantle?
convection currents
500
When metamorphic and igneous rocks go under melting they turn into__________
What is magma?
500
Igneous Rock into sediment
What type of rock is created through weathering and erosion?
500
The test to determine the tru colour of a mineral
Streak test
600
Rocks with large crystals due to slow cooling inside a volcano
What is the texture of intrusive Rocks
600
Rock with rounded fragments with fossil shells
What is Limestone?
600
the two drivers that move earths layers
What is gravity and convection currnents in the mantle
600
Setimentary, Igneous and metamorphic rock being continually changed form one into another type of rock
What is the rock cycle?
600
power of the movement of glaciers
What is the most destructive weathering agent
600
Solid, crystalline, natural and inorganic
What are the criteria to be a mineral