Properties of Rocks
What property describes how shiny a mineral looks?
What is luster?
List 2 of the three main types of rocks?
What are igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic?
This rock family forms when magma or lava cools and solidifies.
What is the igneous family?
What theory explains the movement of Earth’s plates?
What is plate tectonics?
What are the three main types of plate boundaries?
What are convergent, divergent, and transform?
What is the term for how easily a mineral can be scratched?
What is hardness?
This type of rock forms from cooled magma or lava.
What is igneous rock?
Rocks in this family often have visible layers and may contain fossils.
What is the sedimentary family?
What do we call molten rock beneath Earth’s surface?
What is magma?
At a convergent boundary, plates do what?
What is move toward each other?
This test is used to observe the color of a mineral’s powder.
What is the streak test?
Sedimentary rocks often form in this type of environment.
What is a body of water like a river, lake, or ocean?
Heat and pressure deep inside the Earth form this type of rock.
What is the metamorphic family?
Volcanoes often form at what type of plate boundary?
What is a convergent or divergent boundary?
What is the name of the supercontinent that existed millions of years ago?
What is Pangaea?
What does it mean if a mineral has cleavage?
What is it breaks along flat surfaces?
Metamorphic rock forms under what two conditions?
What are heat and pressure?
What is the name of the process where any rock type can change into another over time?
What is the rock cycle?
What is the name for the area around the Pacific Ocean with many volcanoes?
What is the Ring of Fire?
What is subduction or a subduction zone?
What is when one plate slides beneath another?
Which property measures how much matter is in a given volume?
What is density?
What rock type is formed from lava that cools very quickly and has no crystals?
What is obsidian
A granite rock can become (change into) gneiss through heat and pressure. What family is gneiss part of?
What is the metamorphic family?
What is the difference between magma and lava?
What is magma is underground; lava is on the surface?
What type of plate boundary leads to the most powerful earthquakes?
What is a convergent boundary