Igneous & Metamorphic Rocks
This can cool and harden and form igneous rock.
What is magma or lava?
These are little pieces of rocks, pebbles, mineral grains, and shell fragments that eventually form rocks.
What are sediments?
When minerals break along flat surfaces?
What is cleavage?
Location of the youngest rocks in the layers
What is the top?
The process of rocks changing from one kind of rock to another kind of rock over long periods of time.
What is the rock cycle?
This kind of igneous rock is formed when magma cools beneath the Earth's surface.
What is Intrusive igneous rock?
These are two ways that sediments are formed.
What is weathering and erosion?
A rock that would bubble with acid
What is Marble or Limestone?
Causes rocks to bend into a hill shape
What is folding?
What is multiple minerals and organic materials?
This type of igneous rock forms when lava cools on the Earth's surface.
What is Extrusive igneous rock?
What is conglomerate?
You can see this property just by looking at a mineral. Many minerals can be several of these.
What is color?
Divides the earth into northern and southern hemispheres
What is the equator?
This rock type makes up most of earth's crust
What is igneous rock?
What type of metamorphism occurs when rocks are directly touched by magma?
What is contact Metamorphism?
Place theses in order: Cementation, Compaction, Deposition, Erosion, Weathering
What is weathering, erosion, deposition, compaction, and cementation?
The hardest mineral
What is diamond?
divides the Earth into Easter and Western hemispheres
What is the prime meridian?
What is sedimentary?
This determines the size of crystals that form in igneous rocks.
What is the cooling rate of the magma or lava?
The type of sedimentary rock that can contain shells or plants?
What is organic or bioclastic?
The chemical formula for Magnetite.
What are Fe3O4?
A mineral found in Andesite.
What is Quartz, Plagioclase Feldspar, Biotite, Pyroxene, Amphibole?
The 5 ways to test the properties of a mineral.
What is luster, streak, hardness, color and cleavage or fracture or specific gravity/density?