Igneous 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?
This has its own chemical makeup and crystal shape?
What is a mineral.
Name the three types of rock groups.
What is Sedimentary, Igneous and Metamorphic?
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?
A rock full of tiny air bubbles that floats. It forms when lava sprays out of a volcano
What is a pumice rock.
These are two ways that sediments are formed.
What is weathering and erosion?
The scale that is used to measure the hardness of minerals
What is Moh's Hardness Scale
A scientist that studies the earth, the materials that make it up and its processes
What is a geologist
Name two ways people use rocks.
What is buildings, walls, roads, jewelry, decoration, countertops?
True or False: Igneous rocks can become metamorphic rocks
What is true.
These 2 things cause metamorphic rocks to form.
What are heat and pressure?
How many levels does Mohs Scale of Hardness have?
What is ten.
1 being the softest and 10 being the hardest
Metals that make up the outer core.
What is iron and nickel?
Name the layers of the earth
What is the crust, mantle outer core and inner core?
This type of rock means "from fire" in Greek
What is igneous?
For an Igneous rock to become a sedimentary rock, what needs to happen?
What is weathering, erosion, compaction, and cementation?
You can test the softness of talc and gypsum by performing
What is a scratch test with your finger nail
A hard substance composed of one or more minerals.
What is a rock?
The hardest mineral.
What is a diamond?
What are the two types of Igneous rocks?
What is Intrusive and extrusive.
You might find a dinosaur bone or fossil hidden in this rock
What is sedimentary rock.
You can see this property just by looking at a mineral. Many minerals can be several of these.
What is color?
Its temperature can be as hot as the sun
What is the inner core?
Name 3 ways to test the properties of a mineral.
What is luster, streak, hardness, color and cleavage or fracture