Rocks
What are the three types of rocks called?
Sedimentary, Metamorphic, and Igneous
What are minerals?
A solid object found in nature that has never been alive.
What happens after a volcano erupts?
Igneous rock forms
What is something interesting that you learned about rocks and minerals?
Varied responses!
What is the rock formed from magma?
Igneous
What is a characteristic of a mineral?
Minerals are from nature.
Minerals don't come from plants, animals, or living things.
Minerals will always have the same chemical structure.
All minerals are solid at normal temperatures.
What happens after Igneous rock forms?
It gets broken up into little pieces of sediments
What is a geologist?
A scientist who studies rocks and minerals.
What is a rock formed from weathering, fossils, and sediments?
Sedimentary
What is one example of a mineral?
Salt, pencil led, diamonds
What happens after sediments are formed?
Sediments are pressed together to make sedimentary rock.
What is the rock cycle?
The rock cycle shows how the 3 types of rocks form
What kind of rock is changed by heat and getting buried deep underground?
Metamorphic
How do scientists identify minerals?
Color, Luster, Streak, Hardness
What happens after a sedimentary rock is formed?
Rocks get pushed into earth's surface to form a metamorphic rock.
What is the different between magma and lava?
Magma is what is underground in a volcano, and lava is what comes out of a volcano.
What are some description words for rocks?
Dull, rough, smooth, shiny, etc
How are rocks and minerals the same or different?
Minerals are formed from naturally occurring substances that have not been alive.
Rocks are formed from two or more minerals.
What are the next 2 steps after metamorphic rock is formed?
Heat is applied and the rock becomes magma. Then, the magma erupts from the volcano.
What are fossils?
The preserved remains of plants or animals.