True Or False........Igneous rocks are formed when pre-exisisting rocks are changed by heat and pressure.
What is False?
100
Sometimes you may could find pieces of these in sedimentary rock, such as limestone, and they help scientists learn about organisms from the past.
What are fossils?
100
True/False.......metamorphic rocks appearance and make-up changes from the igneous, sedimentary, or metamorphic rock that is was before the heat and pressure were added
What is true?
100
This must occur before weathering and erosion can happen.
What is uplift?
100
This is a measure of how easily a mineral can be scratched.
What is its hardness?
200
List two types of melted rock that form igneous rocks.
What is lava and magma?
200
True or False.....Sedimentary rocks are from small bits of rocks and minerals tat become cemented by natural processes.
What is Ture?
200
Limestone, a sedimentary rock, through heat and pressure is changed into this metamorphic rock.
What is marble?
200
Sediments form from the process of ___________________.
What is weathering and erosion?
200
This is the hardest mineral and what is its hardness number on the Mohs Scale.
What is diamond and 10?
300
This process changes sedimentary rock into igneous rock.
What is melting and solidification?
300
Give 2 examples of sedimentary rocks.
What is shale and limestone?
300
Metamorphic rocks are formed using heat and pressure which can be cause by this theory.
What is plate tectonics?
300
Metamorphism involves the addition of _____________ and _____________ to pre-exisisting rocks.
What is heat and pressure?
300
This is the process of extracting natural resource of the Earth for people to use in their daily lives.
What is mining?
400
Igneous rocks deep inside the earth's crust are also called _______________ igneous rocks.
What is intrusive?
400
Sedimentary rocks can form _________________ rocks, ________________, and ______________.
What are metamorphic, sediments, and magma?
400
This process changes igneous rocks into metamorphic rocks. (ONE WORD)
What is metamorphism?
400
List the missing steps..... 1. weathering, 2.______________
3. deposition 4. ______________ 5. cementation.
What is erosion and compaction?
400
What are 2 differences between rocks and minerals?
What is
1. Minerals are made up of 1 or more elements and rocks are made up of one ore more minerals.
2. Minerals must be inorganic and rocks may be organic or inorganic.
3. Minerals form with a definite chemical composition and rocks do not.
500
Extrusive igneous rocks have ______________ mineral grains because they form from ____________.
What is small and lava?
500
This is the process that turns loose material into rock, not cementation. (on the video we watched in class)
What is lithification?
500
Metamorphic is a greek word which means......
What is "of changing form?"
500
Igneous rocks can form _______________ rocks, __________, and _______________.