Rock Cycle
Types of Rock
Characteristics of rocks
What happens to rocks
Potpourri
100
Created by the cooling and crystalization of Magma and Lave
What is Igneous Rock
100
Shale, sandstone, and coal are examples of
What is sedimentary rock
100
How the surface of the rock looks when it reflects light.
What is luster
100
When sun, rain, or snow wears down a rock
What is weathering
100
When metamorphic rock melts
What is lava or magma
200
Created from the weathering of rocks
What is Sediment
200
Basalt, obsidian and granite are examples of
What is Igeous Rock
200
Measures how easily a mineral can be scratched.
What is Hardness
200
The moving of broken rock or sediment to another location
What is erosion
200
The type of rock where fossils usually form.
What is sedimentary rock.
300
Created from the compacting and hardening of sediment that is cemented together
What is Sedimentary rock
300
Gneiss, slate and marble is and example
What is Metamorphic rock
300
A powdered mark left when a mineral is rubbed against a ceramic surface.
What is Streak
300
Something that can be done to prevent erosion.
What is to plant grass, trees or other plants.
300
A Streak plate is used to test
What is color when the rock is powdered
400
A type of rock that forms from existing rock because of changes caused by heat and pressure.
What is Metamorphic rock
400
When shale undergoes heat and pressure and becomes slate is an example of
What is a sedimentary rock changing into a Metamorphic rock.
400
The way a mineral tends to break (smoothly or have jagged edges.
What is Cleavage
400
A person who studies rocks
What is a Geologist
400
Coal is an example of this type of non-renewable resource
What is Fossil Fuel
500
The continuous series of changes that rocks undergo
What is The Rock Cycle.
500
This would have to happen in order for a metamorphic rock to become a sedimentary rock
What is to be weathered down to sediment and then that sediment would be compacted and cemented.
500
The amount of mass packed into a given volume. (how heavy a rock feels)
What is density.
500
rocks that contain organic material from the past that has been preserved
What is Fossils
500
Where do we find most fossil fuels.
What is under the crust.
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