Sedimentary Rocks
Metamorphic Rocks
Igneous Rocks
Minerals
Crystals
100
Rock particles that get into streams and rivers.
What is sediments
100
What is one type of change that can occur during metamorphism?
What is pressure can cause a rocks minerals to flatten out.
100
Molten rock that has cooled and become solid beneath the earths surface is what?
What is intrusive igneous rocks.
100
Which is the best way to identify an mineral? The luster or the way it breaks?
What is breaks.
100
How cooling time effects large crystal size?
What is they are formed as magma is cooled slowly. A long time!
200
As water currents slow down what particles settle first?
What is the largest gravel.
200
When do metamorphic changes occur over large areas?
What is when high temperature and high pressure.
200
How are the types of rocks classified?
What is by how they form.
200
What is streak?
What is the color of the mineral powder left behind.
200
How cooling time effects small crystal size?
What is magma is close to the surface and cools quickly.
300
How is coal formed?
What is plant remains are berried under sediments with time and pressure from the weight of the sediments above.
300
What is the process of when heat and pressure changes rocks?
What is metamorphism.
300
What are two major properties used to classify igneous rocks?
What is crystal size and silicate.
300
What are two main types of luster?
What is metallic and non metallic.
300
Can you name a rock that has no minerals.
What is obsidian or coal.
400
What are two processes that can change sediments into rocks?
What is pressure or being cemented together.
400
What forms as a rock melts?
What is magma.
400
What is another word for lava that is pushed out to the earths surface and cooled to form what kind of igneous rock?
What is extrusive.
400
What determines how a mineral breaks?
What is how the atoms are bonded.
400
Name a natural occurring mineral in New Mexico?
What is turquoise.
500
Where does most limestone come from?
What is from shells and skeletons and ocean organisms.
500
What is wavy or parallel bands in a metamorphic rock?
What is foliation.
500
How does silicate content affect an igneous rock in color?
What is the lighter the color the more silicate the rock contains.
500
Whats the name of the scale used to find the hardness of minerals?
What is Mohs Scale.
500
Can you name a natural glass and no crystal structure?
What is obsidian.
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