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A scientist who studies Earth.
What is a GEOLOGIST?
100
This will cause a rock to "fizz" when acid is put on it.
What is calcite?
100
Limestone
What is a sedimentary rock?
100
Metallic or nonmetallic.
What are types of luster?
100
Landform most affected by wind.
What is a sand dune?
200
This tool gives a close look at the rock sample's surface and its insides.
What is a microscope?
200
This scale tests the hardness of a mineral?
What is the Mohs hardness scale?
200
Granite and Basalt
What are igneous rocks?
200
This property can show a smooth, flat surface when it breaks.
What is cleavage?
200
These both break rocks into smaller pieces.
What is physical and chemical weathering?
300
Some of these are size, luster, and hardness.
What are properties?
300
This is the hardest mineral found on earth.
What is a diamond?
300
Marble
What is a metamorphic rock?
300
Cleavage, luster, hardness, size This is not used by geologists as a property.
What is size?
300
Volcanoes, flood, chemical weathering, earthquake. This process is a slow form of weathering.
What is chemical weathering?
400
These are solid earth materials made of two or more ingredients.
What are rocks?
400
The Mohs hardness scale goes from softest to hardest. The numbers that go with that are . . .
What is one to ten?
400
This changes a sedimentary rock to a metamorphic rock.
What is heat and pressure?
400
This mineral is attracted to a magnet.
What is magnetite?
400
Rocks break into smaller pieces WITHOUT changing what the rock is made of.
What is physical weathering?
500
These are the ingredients in rocks.
What are minerals?
500
Any rock or mineral that has a valuable substance in it.
What is ore?
500
This type of rock is made from other pieces of rock and sometimes can even hold a fossil.
What is a sedimentary rock?
500
When you rub a tile and leave some mineral powder.
What is streak?
500
Acid rain reacts with calcite in limestone and marble.
What is chemical weathering?