Types of Rocks
Fossils
Rock Cycle
Vocabulary
Pot Luck
100
Igneous, Sedimentary, and Metamorphic
What are the three types of rocks?
100
imprint
What is the fossil created by an impression or print?
100
weathering
What is the process of wearing away of rocks by rain, wind, sun or running water?
100
amber
What is hardened tree sap?
100
color, luster, streak, hardness, and cleveage
What are the properties used to identify a mineral?
200
Igneous Rocks
What is the type of rock that means "fire made"?
200
cast
What is the fossil formed or shaped within a mold?
200
erosion
What is the process in which weathered rock pieces are washed away?
200
lava
What is molten rock above Earth's surface?
200
geologist
What is the name of the scientist who studies the Earth and it minerals?
300
Sedimentary Rocks
What is the type of rock that is made from bits of rocks and/or sediments cemented together?
300
mold
What is a fossil that is a hollow form with a particular shape?
300
heat and pressure
What is the processes that must be applied to form metamorphic rocks?
300
magma
What is molten rock under Earth's surface?
300
gneiss
What is a type of metamorphic rock?
400
Metamorphic Rocks
What is the type of rock that is changed from one type of a rock to another by heat and pressure?
400
Sedimentary Rock
What type of rock will you most likely find fossils?
400
melting
What is the process by which other rocks are changed into igneous rocks?
400
luster
What is the term to describe the way light bounces off a mineral?
400
mineral
What are all rocks made up of?
500
rock salt, shale, limestone and conglomerate
What type of rocks are represented by these examples?
500
relative age
What is the term used to tell the age of something by comparing the ages
500
rock cycle
What is the never-ending process by which rocks are changed by erosion and weathering into different rock types?
500
streak
What is the purpose of rubbing a mineral across an unglazed ceramic plate?
500
volcanoes
What is a way magma comes to Earth's surface?
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