Layers of the Earth
Properties
Rocks
Rock Cycle
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The outer most layer of the Earth
What is the crust?
100
The color when a mineral is scratched on a tile
What is streak?
100
Igneous, Sedimentary, Metamorphic
What are the three types of rocks?
100
A continuous series of changes that rocks undergo.
What is the rock cycle?
100
A solid material made up of one or more minerals is called.
What is a rock?
200
The inner most dense part of the Earth
What is the inner core?
200
How easily a mineral can be scratched
What is hardness?
200
When melted rock (magma) from deep below the Earth's surface cools and hardens, this type of rock forms.
What are igneous rocks?
200
The breaking down of rocks, sometimes caused by wind, and rain
What is weathering?
200
This is used to measure the hardness of a mineral
What is Mohs scale of Hardness?
300
The deepest layer of the Earth
What is the mantle?
300
How shiny or dull a mineral is
What is luster?
300
This type of rock forms when sediments are pressed together and harden
What are sedimentary rocks?
300
When heat and pressure are applied to sedimentary rocks, this type of rock is formed.
What are metamorphic rocks?
300
This mineral property is the least helpful in telling one mineral from another.
What is color?
400
The thinnest layer of the Earth
What is the crust?
400
The way a mineral breaks
What is cleavage?
400
This type of rock forms when existing rocks are changed by extreme heat and pressure.
What are metamorphic rocks?
400
When sediments are cemented together, this type of rock forms.
What are sedimentary rocks?
400
A shiny mineral is identified by this term
What is metallic?
500
The only layer of the Earth that is liquid
What is the outer core?
500
Color, Luster, Streak, Hardness, Cleavage
What are the five properties of minerals?
500
Igneous rocks that form quickly form where?
What is above the Earth's surface?
500
When metamorphic rocks are melted into magma and then hardened and cooled again, this type of rock forms.
What is an igneous rock?
500
This type of igneous rock is formed slowly inside the Earth.
What are intrusive igneous rocks?
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