Rocks
What is the Grand Canyon made out of [ What rock?]
What is sandstone
What is a mineral?
what is a solid inorganic substance of natural occurrence. [ Not in Laboratory ]
When Igneous, Metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks get weathered and eroded [Weathering and erosion] they turn into what?
Sediments
What mineral symbol is AU
What is Gold
How are Igneous rocks formed?
What is the cooling and hardening of magma.
What mineral smells horrible that Mr. Ferrell showed us in class?
Sulfur
When Igneous and Metamorphic Rocks melt they turn into what?
Magma
What mineral symbol is CU
what is Copper
What are rocks made out of?
What is two or more different materials.
Name one way a mineral can be identified
By its color, its luster, its hardness, its streak, its density, its crystal shape, its cleavage and fracture, and other special properties.
When Igneous and Sedimentary rocks are heated and pressured what rock do they turn into.
Metamorphic
What mineral symbol is NE
what is Neon
How are metamorphic rocks formed?
From heat and pressure
How many different kinds of minerals can fit inside a rock?
2
When sediments compact and cement together they turn into which rock?
Sedimentary
What mineral symbol is NA
What is Sodium
How are Sedimentary rocks formed?
The breaking apart of other rocks. Metamorphic, Igneous, or even other Sedimentary rocks
Name 3 types of minerals
naturally, Inorganic, Solid, chemical, crystal
What is the rock cycle
A cycle that describes transitions through geologic time among 3 main rock types
Igneous, metamorphic, sedimentary
What mineral symbol is O
What is oxygen