The Processes
The Rock Cycle
Minerals and Soil
Classification of Rocks
100
The process of eroding or being eroded by wind, water, or other natural agents.
What is erosion?
100
A type of rock made from the cooling and melting of molton magma.
What is igneous rock?
100
The final layer of soil (which is very hard).
What is bedrock?
100
A dark,fine grained volcanic igneous rock
What is Basalt?
200
The process of breaking down rocks, soil, and minerals.
What is weathering?
200
Something created by melting metamorphic rock.
What is magma?
200
The second layer of soil that contains weathered rock, minerals, and clay.
What is subsoil?
200
A hard sedimentary rock used as building material and is in the making of cement.
What is limestone?
300
The two process that allow a rock to melt into magma and then cool to form an igneous rock.
What is melting and cooling?
300
A type of rock formed by heat and pressure.
What is metaporphic rock?
300
A table that ranks the hardness of mineals.
What is the Mohs scale?
300
A metamorophic rock with a banded or foliated structure.
What is Gneiss?
400
The process of pressing together under their own weight.
What is compaction
400
Compacting and comenting creates this type of rock.
What is sedimentary rock?
400
When water soaks into the topsoil, it reats with the humus to form an acid.
What is leaching?
400
A hard crystal like metamorphic form of limestone, typically with white molting or streaks of color.
What is marble?
500
The process in which dissolved minerals crystallize and glue particles of sediment together into one mass.
What is comentation?
500
Tiny pieces of rock made by weathering and erosion.
What is sediments?
500
tells you how light refects off of a mineral.
What is luster?
500
A black or brown rock that is mainly used as fuel.
What is coal?
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