Each step of the rock cycle may take ____________ (amount of time).
What is thousands of years?
100
True or false...Rocks make up minerals.
What is false?
100
The 3 types of light...
What are transparent, translucent, and opaque?
100
__________ comes from a volcano.
What is magma?
200
This rock is made from fire.
What is an igneous rock?
200
True or False - Layers help form igneous rocks in the rock cycle.
What is false.
200
Minerals make up ______.
What are rocks?
200
This type of material allows light to pass through.
What is a transparent material?
200
The material that comes out of a volcano is called _____.
What is lava?
300
How is sedimentary rock formed?
Sedimentary rock is formed from layers of sand, rock, gravel, etc.
300
Name 3 properties of rocks.
Light, Luster, Hardness, Texture (feel), Color, Streak, Magnetic, and Shape
300
_________ are not living things.
What are minerals?
300
This type of material allows NO light to pass through.
What is an opaque material?
300
Magma is called ______ once it exists the volcano.
What is lava?
400
Heat and pressure are the key words for this type of rock...
What is a metamorphic rock?
400
True or False...Heating coal forms sedimentary rocks.
What is false?
400
True or False: We use minerals daily.
What is true?
400
This type of material allows some light to pass through.
What is a translucent material?
400
Glass, buildings, roads, and chalk are things made from ________ that we can use.
What are rocks?
500
Compare and contrast the 3 types of rocks...
Igneous rocks are fire-made.
Sedimentary rocks are made from layers.
Metamorphic rocks are formed from heat and pressure.
500
Explain the rock cycle.
All rocks can be changed to another form of rock by weathering, heat, and pressure.
500
You can compare minerals by looking at their ______, ___________, and __________.
What are color, hardness, and texture?
500
Give an example of each type of material that light passes through. (Remember we use three materials in our Science Notebooks to explain each type of light.)
Transparent material - clear material
Translucent material - wax paper
Opaque material - black construction paper
500
_____________ rocks are formed from weathered rock eroded and deposited in layers.