Rocks and Minerals
Rock 'n' Roll
Mineral Madness
Weathering and Erosion
Throwback Questions
100
If a rock is like a cookie then what material are the ingredients?
What are Minerals?
100
What is the Earth's crust made up of?
rock
100
What is a mineral?
Minerals are a pure and made of the same substance throughout.
100
Unlike erosion, which moves material, this process is the "in-place" breaking down of rocks.
What is Weathering?
100
This process, occurring at mid-ocean ridges, is evidenced by magnetic patterns on the ocean floor.
What is sea floor spreading?
200
What are the three types of rocks.
Igneous, sedimentary, metamorphic
200
There are three different type of rocks in the rock cycle.
What is igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic
200
This property describes how a mineral reflects light, using terms like "metallic" or "pearly."
Lustre.
200
This type of mechanical weathering occurs when water freezes in cracks and expands, prying the rock apart.
What is Frost wedging?
200
Compared to the continental crust, this type of crust is more dense and more mafic (basaltic).
What is oceanic crust?
300
Two processes that start with C are responsible for the formation of sedimentary rocks.
What is compaction and cementation?
300
You’ll likely find fossils in this rock type, formed from the accumulation of debris over time.
What is Sedimentary?
300
This term describes a mineral's tendency to break along flat, parallel surfaces.
What is Cleavage.
300
This is the primary agent of erosion in this photo of the Grand Canyon.
What is Moving water.
300
This nuclear process occurs at a constant, spontaneous rate and is used as a "geologic clock."
What is radioactive decay?
400
The process that changes rocks from one type to another that has no begining or end.
What is the Rock Cycle.
400
Intense heat and pressure transform existing rocks into this type, like limestone turning into marble.
What is Metamorphic?
400
A measure of a minerals resistance to scratching is called.
Hardness.
400
The type of weathering that occurs when iron reacts with oxygen and water, giving rocks a reddish hue.
What is chemical weathering.
400
This process transfers heat energy through molecular collisions without the bulk movement of material.
What is conduction?
500
What is the difference between a rock and a mineral?
Rocks are made up of 2 or more minerals. Minerals are made up of the same substance throughout.
500
This rock type forms from the cooling and solidification of molten magma or lava.
What is Igneous?
500
List at least 4 properties of minerals.
Color, streak, lustre, magnetism, transparency and hardness.
500
Give one example of chemical weathering and one example of physical weathering.
Answers will vary!
500
It is the specific process where less dense, warm water rises while more dense, cool water sinks.
What is convection?