Rocks
A material that comes from the earth and are made from minerals.
What is a rock?
Heat and pressure make
What is metamorphic rock?
When the rocks are hot and melted they turn into.
What is magma?
Words that describe rocks and minerals.
What are physical properties?
What is the rock formed from magma?
What is Igneous
What are some properties of minerals?
What is Color, Luster, Cleavage / Fracture, Streak, Hardness
What are the three types of rocks?
What is sedimentary, metamorphic, and ingenious?
These rocks can be formed above or below the earth's crust.
What is igneous Rocks?
This causes sediments to be moved from one place to another.
What is an Erosion?
Rocks that formed by compressing fossils, sediment, and other materials?
What is Sedimentary?
What is one mineral you use every day in class?
What is pencil lead,
What is the third step in the creation of sedimentary rocks?
What is deposition?
When cold, heat, wind, rain, and gravity break down the igneous rocks.
What is weathering?
A scale of hardness used in classifying minerals.
What is the Moh"s scale?
Rocks that are changed by heat and pressure underground?
What is Metamorphic?
How do geologists identify minerals?
What is Color, Luster, Cleavage / Fracture, Streak, Hardness?/Physical Properties
What is the fourth step in the creation of sedimentary rock?
What is compaction?
When the rocks are moved by water, wind, rain, etc.
What is erosion?
This substance changes name depending on whether it is inside the volcano, or outside the volcano.
What is magma and lava?
You are at a construction site, and someone picked up a rock. What type of rock is likely the rock the construction worker found
What is Sedimentary Rock
How do we define rocks?
What is by its texture and mineral composition
Imagine you are a sedimentary rock called Sandstone. What strategy would you use to transform into a different type of rock? What type of rock can sandstone become?
What is Extreme Heat and Pressure, what is Quartzite
When the rock is compressed/bonded AND when the rocks change due to heat and pressure. What type of rock(s) is it?
What is sedimentary & metamorphic?
The breaking down of rocks
What is weathering