What is a rock?
a solid made up of one or more minerals.
What is a rock?
3 types of major rocks
What is metamorphic, igneous, and sedimentary rocks?
the rock cycle occurs very slowly for how many years
What is millions of years?
the process that breaks down rocks into smaller pieces
What is weathering?
Mt. Rushmore is carved out of this rock.
What is igneous?
made up or layers of rocks, called limestones
What is the Grand Canyon?
slate, marble, gneiss, and schist
Types of metamorphic rocks
the first and second step in the rock cycle
What is volcanic eruption and igneous rock?
a rock has been broken down into pieces by weathering
What is erosion?
lightning strikes sand and forms this.
What is glassy rock called Fulgurite?
rock formed by great heat or pressure
What is a metamorphic rock?
basalt, granite, pumice, quartz
Types of igneous rocks
What is sediments?
when particles carried by water, ice, or wind by the forces of erosion are deposited in another location.
What is deposition?
the hardest mineral.
What is a diamond?
rock formed when melted rock cools and hardens.
What is an igneous rocks?
limestone, coal, sandstone, shale
types of sedimentary rocks
the fourth and fifth steps in rock cycle?
What is sedimentary rocks and metamorphic rocks?
two types of causes of weathering.
What is: wind, rain, ice, chemicals, freezing or thawing?
rocks from space
What are meteorites?
a rock formed from many years of sediment squeezed together until they harden.
What is a sedimentary rock?
rocks are always changing the the process of change is......
What is the rock cycle?
the last step in the rock cycle?
What is magma?
two causes of erosion
What is: wind, rain, waves, gravity, or moving ice?
igneous comes from this type of word meaning "fire"
What is Latin?