Rock Types
This type of rock forms when magma cools
What is igneous rock?
Rocks are changed from one type to another in this natural process.
What is the rock cycle?
This property of a mineral describes how it reflects light.
What is lustre?
Fossils are most commonly found in this type of rock.
What is sedimentary rock?
These are natural materials like minerals, forests, and water that humans use.
What are natural resources?
This type of rock forms from layers of compacted sediment.
What is sedimentary rock?
The process of magma cooling and hardening forms this type of rock.
What is igneous rock?
This property measures how hard a mineral is, using a scale from 1 to 10.
What is hardness?
Fossils are the remains or imprints of these.
What are plants and animals?
First Peoples in B.C. view the environment with this kind of connection.
What is a spiritual connection?
This type of rock is formed through heat and pressure.
What is metamorphic rock?
he breaking down of rocks into smaller pieces is called this.
What is weathering?
This is the term for the color of a mineral's powder when rubbed on a streak plate.
What is streak?
This process occurs when minerals replace the structure of an organism to form a fossil.
What is petrification?
This term refers to using resources in a way that doesn’t harm the environment for future generations.
What is sustainability?
This rock type can contain fossils because of how it forms in layers.
What is sedimentary rock?
The rock cycle includes these two processes that change sediment into sedimentary rock.
What are compacting and cementing?
A mineral that can scratch all others has a value of 10 on this scale.
What is the Mohs hardness scale?
Only a small percentage of these prehistoric creatures have been found as fossils.
What are dinosaurs?
This natural resource contributes the most to B.C.’s economy.
What is energy?