Rocks 1
Minerals
Rock Cycle
Rocks 2
Miscellaneous
100
This type of rock is formed from magma.
What is Igneous
100
A mineral must be ______________, not made of living things.
What is inorganic
100
The name of the process that breaks down rocks.
What is weathering
100
Name an Igneous rock.
What is granite, obsidian, pumice,
100
How old is the earth?
What is 4.6 billion years.
200
Name a sedimentary rock
What is sandstone, conglomerate, shale, limestone, halite
200
The name of the color left behind when a mineral is rubbed against a ceramic plate.
What is streak
200
The type of weathering that is caused by wind, water or plants.
What is physical weathering.
200
What type of rock are made from layers that are squeeed together, usually under water?
What is sedimentary rock.
200
Mass รท volume
What is density
300
Sedimentary rocks that form when sediments are compacted and cemented together.
What is clastic?
300
How a mineral breaks is called _____________
What is cleavage.
300
The process by which a sedimentary rock could become a metamorphic rock.
What is buried under the earth's crust and subjected to intense heat and pressure.
300
The type of igneous rock that forms when magma cools slowly inside the earth.
What is intrusive
300
In the "erosion in my mouth" lab, your saliva breaking down the chocolate simulated what type of weathering?
What is chemical weathering.
400
An example of an evaporate sedimentary rock.
What is halite
400
Name a mineral that has a hardness of less than 3.
What is talc or gypsum
400
The process by which a metamorphic rock could become an igneous rock.
What is melting and cooling.
400
The definition of this word is that there is an ample amount of something (like a mineral) available.
What is abundant
400
The type of rock (igneous, sedimentary or metamorphic) that fossils are most often found in.
What is sedimentary.
500
The type of igneous rock that has very small or no visible crystals.
What is extrusive
500
Water is not a mineral because it is not a _____________.
What is solid.
500
What type of rock did all rock start off as?
What is Igneous
500
An extrusive igneous rock that floats in water.
What is pumice.
500
The most abundant mineral on earth.
What is Quartz
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