Minerals
The building blocks of rocks.
What are minerals?
The driving force that initiates the rock cycle.
What is weathering and erosion/water cycle?
In Stone Mountain Georgia, Coach Culver had this fly in his eye.
What is a moth?
“Morph” means this.
What is to change?
The main agent in chemical weathering.
What is water?
The hardest mineral on Earth, rated 10 on the Mohs scale.
What is diamond?
Sediments undergo these two processes to become sedimentary rocks.
What is compaction and cementation?
What type of car did Coach Culver find the rust under?
What is an Avalanche?
The parent rock of marble.
What is limestone?
Mechanical weathering process where water freezes and expands in cracks.
What is frost wedging?
The property that describes how a mineral's surface reflects light.
What is luster?
Magma that reaches the earth's surface
What is lava?
What color diamond did the crazy lady at the jewelry store try to sell me?.
What is yellow?
Rock with visible bands of minerals is described as this.
What is foliated?
The acid formed when CO₂ dissolves in water, harmful to limestone.
What is carbonic acid?
In addition to cleavage, minerals break in this way.
What is fracture?
A sedimentary rock can become a metamorphic rock due to changes of these two.
What temperature and pressure?
What did Coach Culver and his grandfather find while arrowhead hunting?
What is a Civil War sword?
Metamorphic rock that does not have visible layers due to intense heat.
What is non-foliated rock?
Processes that build Earth’s surface are called this.
What are constructive processes?
This optical property is the least reliable for identifying a mineral.
What is color?
This volcanic glass, often used for arrowheads, is an igneous rock that forms after crystallization.
What is obsidian?
What is the guy's name who randomly appeared in Mrs. Culver's PowerPoint?
Who is Principal Dutton?
Two main agents that cause rocks to metamorphose.
What are heat and pressure?
Volcanoes, floods, and landslides can be listed under both constructive and destructive processes because they do what?
What is they destroy some land but also build new land by depositing material?