Igneous Rocks
Metamorphic Rocks
Sedimentary Rocks
Rock Cycle
Minerals and Crystals
100
Which process changes magma into igneous rock?
What is cooling and hardening?
100
True or False Metamorphic rock changes from one type of rock to another
What is TRUE
100
Sedimentary rocks are formed from sediments that become pressed together in these
What are Layers
100
The three basic kinds of rocks changing from one form to another because of melting, pressure, heat and cooling
What is the Rock Cycle
100
Basic building block of rocks
What are minerals
200

Which is not an igneous rock?

Basalt
Rock Salt
Granite
Obsidian

What is Rock Salt?
200
True or False An example of metamorphic rock: is  gneiss
What is TRUE?
200
True or False Each layer in a sedimentary rock is the same thickness
What is FALSE
200
This kind of rock forms when extreme heat and pressure cause a rock to change form
What is metamorphic rock
200
What are the properties of rocks that a student should observe when determining what kind of rock they have found?
What are color, streak, hardness, cleavage, luster?
300
What happens to igneous rock before it cools and hardens?
What is that it is hot, melted lava that has come out of a volcano?
300
According to the Rock Cycle, before a rock becomes metamorphic it is?
What is Sedimentary?
300
True or False Sedimentary rocks are easily changed by wind and water
What is TRUE
300
True or False The rock cycle ends when a rock is a metamorphic rock
What is FALSE. The rock cycle is never ending.
300
How hardness of minerals is measured
What is Mohs' hardness scale
400
The layer of melted rock below Earth's crust
What is magma
400
A squeezing force that pushes things together
What is pressure
400
This is the process of how sedimentary rocks are formed?
What is compaction and cementation?
400
A scientist that studies rocks
What is geologist
400
The property that describes the way that light reflects off the surface of a mineral
What is luster
500
Magma that reaches Earth's surface
What is lava
500
Metamorphic rocks are formed from these types of rocks
What are igneous, sedimentary and even other metamorphic rocks (p. 172)
500
The remains of animals or plants from long ago
What are fossils
500
A geologist has samples that she is observing and they are made of two or more minerals. What is the geologist observing?
What is rocks?
500
Hardest mineral on the Mohs' hardness scale
What is a diamond
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