How are igneous rocks formed?
What is the cooling or hardening of magma or lava?
Igneous rocks are what?
When minerals are scraped on a porcelain plate
What is streak?
How do you test for a minerals hardness?
What is Moh's hardness scale.
Convection currents are in what part of the earth?
What is the Lithosphere? (upper mantle and crust)
How are sedimentary rocks formed?
What is the compaction or cementation of sediments?
What are metamorphic rocks?
What are rocks that have been under a lot of heat and pressure?
A minerals reflection to light
What is luster?
How do you test for a minerals luster?
What is putting a flat material under direct light and putting a mineral on that material?
Convection currents bring up the heat and energy to create what two type of rocks?
What are igneous and metamorphic rocks?
How are metamorphic rocks formed?
What is heat and pressure on sedimentary rocks?
What are sedimentary rocks?
What is compacted and cemented sediments?
Moh's ________ scale
What is hardness?
How do you test for a minerals breakage pattern?
What is looking at a mineral to see if it has very sharp breakage patterns or if it has a flat surface when it breaks?
What do convection currents bring up?
What is very hot rock and magma?
Breaks all rocks down into sediments
What is weathering and erosion?
Rocks way of recycling
What is the rock cycle?
The degree of compactness of a substance
What is density?
How to test for a minerals colour?
What is looking at it?
What do convection currents bring down?
What are cooled rocks?
The order of how rocks become sediments to sedimentary rocks
What it 1. Weathering and erosion 2. Transportation 3. Deposition 4. Compaction 5. Cementation?
Foliated and Nonfoliated rock examples?
What is marble and slate?(foliated rocks are rocks that have ribbons or bands. Nonfoliated rocks are made up of grains.)
A minerals way two ways of breaking
What is cleavage or fracture?
How to test for a minerals density?
What is putting a certain amount of water in a tube and putting the rock in the tube to see how much the water rises?
Breaks the lithosphere into plates that causes some natural disasters
What are convection currents?