Rocks & Minerals
A mixture of one or more minerals
What is rock made from?
Type of rock; means to change shape
What is metamorphic rock?
The layer of Earth humans live on—STEAL
What is the Earth's crust?
What is mechanical weathering?
The preserved remains, impressions, or traces of once-living organisms from past geological ages
What are fossils?
Four types of ways to investigate materials' properties
What is hardness, streak, lustre, color, cleavage, and/or transparency
Molten rock inside the Earth's crust
What is magma?
Earth's thickest layer
What is the mantle?
When acid rain destroys rocks
A solid material with straight edges, flat sides, and regular shapes
What is a crystal?
A mineral made up of two or more types of atoms
What is a compound mineral?
Shale, sandstone, limestone are all examples of this
How Pangaea split into separate continents
What is continental drift?
The movement of rock and mineral grains from one place to another
What is erosion?
What is formed by the convergence of continental and oceanic plates—STEAL
What are mountains?
The softest mineral on the Mohs scale—STEAL
What is talc?
The process in which sedimentary rocks are arranged
What is stratification?
The type of plates in the Earth that slide past each other—STEAL
What are transforming plates?
When root wedging destroys rocks
What is biological weathering?
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What is Nabaa's aura?
An example of a crystal with cleavage in one direction—STEAL
What is muscovite?
The one step that takes igneous rock → metamorphic rock
What is heat and pressure?
The scale earthquakes are measured on
What is the Richter scale?
The four causes of erosion
The part of strata that is the oldest—STEAL