Classifying Rocks
Rock that behaves like something between a liquid and a solid.
What is plastic rock?
The process of a liquid changing into a gas.
What is evaporation?
Name the 3 types of rocks.
What are igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks?
The process by which water is continuously exchanged between Earth's various water sources.
What is the hydrologic cycle?
How the surface of the mineral reflects light.
What is luster?
What is geology?
The process that moves sediments.
What is erosion?
This type of rock starts out as a different type of rock and is changed as a result of pressure and heat.
What is metamorphic rock?
The greatest supply of fresh water on Earth.
What are glaciers?
The color left behind when a mineral is scraped on porcelain
What is streak?
Solid, naturally-occurring, inorganic substances that have a definite chemical composition and a crystalline structure.
What are minerals?
The process of a gas changing into a liquid.
What is condensation?
This type of rock forms when molten rock solidifies.
What is igneous rock?
The sum of all water on the planet.
What is hydrosphere?
The geometric arrangement of atoms in a mineral
What is crystal structure?
Small, solid fragments of rock-like gravel, sand, silt, mud, or clay.
What is sediment?
Any process that breaks down rocks and creates sediment.
What is weathering?
This rock forms when sediments are solidified through pressure and chemical reactions.
What is sedimentary rock?
Evaporation of water from plants.
What is transpiration?
How the mineral breaks apart
What are fracture and cleavage?
A series of processes in which forces within Earth and at the surface cause rocks to continuously change from one type to another.
What is the rock cycle?
Evaporation and condensation of a mixture to separate out the mixture's individual components.
What is distillation?
A surface where seismic waves change velocity.
What is discontinuity?
When the atoms of a liquid become a solid due to extreme pressure
What is pressure freezing?
The three Compositional Layers of the Earth's crust (outer rock layer, the middle layer comprised of plastic rock, and the inner layer believed to be made of metal, and ).
What are the crust, mantle, and core?