Rocks
Michigan Rocks
Processes
Rocks and Us
The Great Lakes
100
The number of rock groups there are.
What is three?
100
Michigan's state stone.
What is the Petoskey stone?
100
The series of processes on and beneath the Earth's surface that slowly changes rocks from one kind to another.
What is the rock cycle?
100
Is used for making counter tops.
What is granite?
100
The five Great Lakes.
What are Lakes Michigan, Huron, Superior, Ontario and Erie?
200
The names of the three rock groups.
What are igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary?
200
The number of minerals found in Michigan.
What is 300?
200
The process that moves sediment from one place to another.
What is erosion?
200
Why golf courses and cemataries are built on moraines.
What is because they drain quickly?
200
These are found underneath the Great Lakes and Michigan (especially Detroit).
What are giant salt deposits/mines?
300
What rocks are made of.
What are minerals?
300
Giant rivers of ice that carved out Michigan a long time ago.
What are glaciers?
300
True or False? When a rock becomes a metamorphic rock, its minerals can change?
What is true?
300
A beautiful, metamorphic rock used for floors and statues.
What is marble?
300
The two Great Lakes the salt is found under.
What are lakes Huron and Michigan?
400
The type of rock that is changed by heat, pressure or fluids.
What is a metamorphic rock?
400
What the Petoskey stone was before it was a fossil.
What is a coral?
400
True or False? Igneous rock is formed only below the Earth's surface?
What is false?
400
True or False? All types of rocks are used for building materials.
What is true?
400
These once covered Michigan and are what made the salt deposits.
What are warm, shallow coral seas?
500
The way geologists classify rocks. Name one.
What is color, texture, composition or how it was formed?
500
Michigan's state gemstone.
What is the greenstone?
500
If the plates stopped moving, this would happen to the rock cycle.
What is stop?
500
The rock in Mrs. Karn's yard was found there or bought.
What is found there?
500
The reason the salt is still found under the Great Lakes, why it never went away.
What is a giant rocky basin?
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