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100

______________ forms when _________ cools and hardens.

What is igneous rock and magma/lava?

100

This is the hardest mineral on the Moh's Hardness scale.

What is a diamond?

100

Fossils are found in ______________ rocks.

What is sedimentary?

100

Metamorphic rocks form from ________ and _________.

What is heat and pressure?

100

A ____________ is formed from cooling molten material.

What is an igneous rock?

200

Marble is a ____________ rock.

What is metamorphic?

200

Rocks are __________________ by their formation.

What is classified?

200

Magma that cools slowly below the Earth's surface is called ____________ _____________ rock.

What is intrusive igneous rock?

200

True or False

Lava cools to form a mineral.

What is false?  It forms a rock.

200

Heat and pressure create _________________ rock.

What is metamorphic?

300

This is a __________________ rock.

What is sedimentary rock?

300

Igneous rocks form when magma/lava ________________ and becomes a ___________.

What is cools and solid?

300

Sedimentary rocks are formed by ____________ over time.

What is compaction and cementation?

300

The properties that are used to identify minerals are color, streak, _________, density, crystal structure, and how it __________.

What is luster and breaks?

300

Three minerals that would scratch apatite are _______________.

What is microcline, quartz, topaz, corundum, or diamond?

400

Letter E is ___________________ in the rock cycle.

What is magma?

400

Double Jeopardy

You are hiking a trail and find a rock with very large crystals.  It is most likely a _______________ rock that cools ______________.

What is igneous and slowly?

400

Sedimentary rocks form by these steps.

What is 

1.  Weathering

2.  Erosion

3. Compaction and Cementation

400

Letter C is ___________________ in the rock cycle.

What is sedimentary rock?

400

A _________ can be made up from minerals, but ______________cannot be made up of rocks.

What is rock and mineral?

500

_________ and ________ are metamorphic because _____________.

Gneiss and slate because of heat and pressure?

500

Letter D is ___________________ in the rock cycle.

What is metamorphic rock?

500

Letter A is ___________________ in the rock cycle.

What is igneous rock?

500

Daily Double

According to the chart, _________ and ________ are igneous because _________________.

What are basalt and granite and because of crystallization of magma?

500

Letter B is ___________________ in the rock cycle.

What is sediment?