Rocks
Minerals
Rock Cycle
Rock Cycle
Vocabulary
100
A material that comes from the earth.
What is a rock?
100
Materials that are from the earth and can be found inside of rocks.
What are minerals?
100
Melting
What is the first step in the rock cycle?
100
When the rocks are hot and melted into magma.
What is melting?
100
Words that describe rocks and minerals.
What are properties?
200
Igneous
What is the rock formed from magma?
200
What are some properties of minerals?
What is hardness, float, etc.
200
Uplift
What is the second step in the rock cycle?
200
When the rocks are released through the tops or in the cracks of volcanoes.
What is uplift?
200
A scientist who studies rocks and minerals.
What is a geologist?
300
Sedimentary
What is the rock that is formed by compressing fossils, sediment and other materials?
300
What is one use of minerals?
What is pencil lead, clocks, etc.
300
Weathering
What is the third step in the rock cycle?
300
When weather such as wind and rain break down the igneous rocks.
What is weathering?
300
Hardness, float, streak, etc.
What is field testing?
400
Metamorphic
What kind of rock is changed by heat and pressure underground?
400
How do geologists identify minerals?
What is field testing.
400
Transport
What is the fourth step in the rock cycle?
400
When the rocks are moved by water, wind, rain, etc.
What is transport?
400
Inside the volcano- outside the volcano.
What is the different between magma and lava?
500
What are some properties that describe rocks?
What dull, rough, etc.
500
How are rocks and minerals the same? How are rocks and minerals different?
What described by properties, etc.
500
Sedimentation & Metamorphasis
What are the last two steps in the rock cycle?
500
When the rocks are compressed and when the rocks change due to heat and pressure.
What is sedimentation & metamorphism?
500
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What is something interesting that you learned about rocks and minerals?
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