Two physical characteristics that can help identify a mineral
What is streak, luster, hardness, color, smell, texture, cleavage
100
Rocks that form from magma cooling within the earth’s surface or from lava cooling on the earth’s surface
What are Igneous rocks?
100
True or False? The rock cycle only flows in one direction
What is False?
200
Continuous changing of rocks from one form to another
What is the Rock Cycle?
200
The three types of sedimentary rock
What is Clastic, Chemical, and Organic?
200
How is soil created from rock?
A. mechanical weathering without chemical weathering
B. chemical weathering without mechanical weathering
C. both chemical and mechanical weathering
D. weathering is not involved
What is C?
200
Rocks that form from compaction and cementation
What are Sedimentary rocks?
200
One possible texture for an extrusive igneous rock?
What is glassy, porous, holy, smooth
300
Rock and mineral pieces
What are clasts?
300
The two types of Metamorphic Rocks
What is foliated and non-foliated
300
Two requirements to be a mineral
What is definite chemical composition, inorganic, naturally formed, solid, crystalline structure
300
Rocks that have been changed from other rocks as a result of heat and pressure
What are Metamorphic Rocks?
300
Do intrusive igneous rocks form from lava or magma?
What is magma?
400
The breaking down of rocks and other materials
What is weathering?
400
The specific type or rock that will contain fossils
What is Organic Sedimentary Rock
400
The soil horizon that has the most organic matter
What is the A horizon?
400
A rock was found near a volcano that is coarse grained and has large crystals.
What is an Intrusive Igneous Rock?
400
If a metamorphic rock has an arrangement of minerals in flat or wavy bands, what type is it?
What is foliated?
500
Layers of soil
What are soil horizons?
500
The easiest type of rock to become in the rock cycle
What is Sedimentary Rock?
500
The part of the rock cycle where soil will be represented.
What is Sediment
500
A rock was found near a lake bed that has pieces in it of different sizes
What is a Clastic Sedimentary Rock?
500
True or False? The texture of sedimentary rocks is determined by how fast they cool.