Minerals
Igneous Rocks
Sedimentary Rocks
Metamorphic Rocks
Rock Cycle and Fossils
100
solid
What is a characteristic of a mineral?
100
Intrusive
What is when rocks are formed inside the Earth?
100
Formed from particles deposited by wind and water
What sedimentary rocks formed from?
100
Shale turns into this
What is slate?
100
James Hutton
How came up with the concept of the rock cycle?
200
Oxides
What is on of the eight groups of minerals that are common?
200
Pumice
What is an igneous rock that is considered glass because it has no crystal structure?
200
Heat, cold, rain, waves, and ice grinding
What is erosion?
200
sandstone turns into this
What is quartzite?
200
When rocks sink into the Earth where they are heated, pressed, and melted
What is the rock cycle?
300
Topaz
What is number eight on the Mohs Hardness Scale?
300
Extrusive
What is when rocks are formed on the outside of Earth?
300
Clastic, organic, chemical
What are the names that of the groups that sedimentary rocks classified into?
300
Granite turns into this
What is gneiss?
300
Includes bones, teeth, or entire organisms
What are body fossils?
400
Streak
What is a way to identify minerals?
400
Origin, texture, and mineral composition
What are ways igneous rocks are classified?
400
When pieces of rock break down and squeeze together
What are clastic rocks?
400
Limestone
What is used for statues?
400
Also called impression fossils
What are mold and cast fossils?
500
Luster
What is one of the eight mineral properties
500
Pele's tears
What are tear-like drops of volcanic glass, usually basaltic?
500
Breccia
What is coarse angular grained rocks
500
Marble
What is used in The US Capitol Building?
500
When organisms are buried in sediment
What are mineral replacement fossils?
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