These are a type of rock that have many layers and may have shells in the layers.
What are sedimentary rocks?
100
The color a mineral makes when ran across a streak plate?
What is streak?
100
This is used to see if calcite is in a mineral?
What is acid?
100
The way in which one rock type changes to another rock type.
What is the rock cycle?
200
Wind is the main reason why this famous landform in Arizona was created.
What is the Grand Canyon?
200
This rock is created by heat and pressure.
What is metamorphic rock?
200
This is when a mineral has a metallic or non-metallic property?
What is luster?
200
In class, we used this to represent acid being used on minerals to find calcite.
What is vinegar?
200
Name the three types of rocks in the rock cycle.
What is metamorphic rocks, igneous rocks, and sedimentary rocks?
300
Describe what happens when erosion from water leaves a layer of sand and pebbles next to a bend in the river or stream.
What is sand being deposited on the bank of a river or stream?
300
Obsidian and granite are examples of this type of rock.
What are igneous rocks?
300
This mineral has a gray to black color, a greasy, and a metallic luster. It is often used in pencils.
What is graphite?
300
Calcite leaves this color streak on a streak plate.
What is the color white?
300
To change a sedimentary rock into a metamorphic rock, this process needs to happen.
What is heat and pressure?
400
This type of landform is created at the bottom of a stream when sand and pebbles are deposited.
What is a delta?
400
An unknown rock is very light and has small pores, or holes, all over its surface. People use it to rub dead skin off of their feet.
What is pumice?
400
This mineral can be scratched by a fingernail, has a white, greenish, or gray color, and feels greasy to the touch.
What is talc?
400
An unknown rock is left out in acid rain and begins to fizz or bubble as the rain hits it. This mineral contains _______.
What is calcite?
400
Lava pours out from a volcano and hardens on the ground. Thousands of years pass and fossils and other types of rocks have formed in layers on top of the hardened lava. This is an example of igneous rock changing into _____________ rock.
What is a sedimentary rock?
500
This determines the size of crystals that form in igneous rocks.
What is the cooling rate of the magma or lava?
500
Give an example of what metamorphic rocks are used for.
What is marble floors, diamond rings, or slate?
500
Galena and Magnetite both have a metallic luster. One of them is magnetic and has a metallic luster.
What is Magnetite?
500
Granite and limestone both contain calcite. Describe one way these two rocks are different.
What is marble is a metamorphic rock and limestone is a sedimentary rock?
500
The 5 properties of minerals that we discussed in class.
What is luster, streak, hardness, color and reaction to acid?