The Rock Cycle
This type of rock is created through the heating and cooling of magma.
What is... Igneous
How light shines and reflects off of a mineral is called...
DOUBLE POINTS: In our mineral ID lab, what mineral did you identify that is common in Minecraft? this mineral is an 8 on the hardness scale, very shiny, and almost always all black.
What is... Luster
The mineral you identified was OBSIDIAN
This is the physical breakdown of a rock into smaller pieces.
What is... Weathering
This type of weathering is caused by water getting into open cracks, freezing and breaking the rock down even more.
What is... Frost Wedging, OR Freezing and Thawing.
Liquid to gas
What is... Evaporation
This type of rock is created through intense heat and pressure.
What is.... Metamorphic
Scratching a mineral with your fingernail, penny, and steel nail is measuring what property about minerals?
What is... Hardness
This is the movement of sediments from one place to another.
What is... Erosion
This type of weathering is caused by tree roots breaking about rocks.
What is... Root Wedging
Gas to liquid (formation of clouds)
What is... Condensation
This type of rock is created through the pressure of different sediments together.
What is... Sedmimentary
Rubbing a mineral on a porcelain plate is testing what property of minerals?
What is... Streak
This is the laying down of sediments.
DOUBLE POINTS: In our stream table lab in Unit 4, what river feature was created at the END of the stream?
What is... Deposition
The river feature is a DELTA
This type of weathering that breaks rocks into sediments without changing the chemical composition of the rocks.
What is.... Mechanical Weathering
Liquid to solid
Freezing
The fact that all types of rocks can become any other type of rock due to different processes is called...
What is... The Rock Cycle
Which property is the WORST to use when identifying a mineral?
What is... Color
What are 2 main types of weathering?
What is... Mechanical & Chemical
Weathering that changes the chemical composition of the rocks.
DOUBLE POINTS: In our chemical weathering lab in Unit 4, what object did we use to show oxidation?
What is... Chemical Weathering
The object we used was a PENNY
When liquid rain falls to the Earth.
What is... Precipitation
Rocks are classified by...
What is... How they form
These 2 properties of minerals are how a mineral breaks along even or uneven surfaces.
What is... Cleavage & Fracture
The term means the rubbing or scraping of a rock.
What is... Abrasion
What is the process where oxygen and water mix to form rust.
Oxidation
Evaporation of water from plants.
DOUBLE POINTS: In our water quality lab from Unit 4, what specific measurement were you testing for? This measures the amount of dissolved minerals in the water.
What is... Transpiration
The measurement you were testing was HARDNESS