What are the three main types of rocks in the rock cycle?
What is igneous, sedimentaryy, and metamorphic rocks.
100
The bits and pieces of rocks, soil and sand.
What is sediment?
100
This is the speed in which basalt cools.
What is quickly?
100
This is made from crystals.
What are minerals?
100
"Made from sediment" is this rocks definition.
What is sedimentary?
200
These types of rocks contain fossils?
What is sedimentary rocks?
200
Rocks always travel in no specific pattern in this cycle.
What is the rock cycle?
200
This is what happens to create a metamorphic rock
What is change by heat or pressure?
200
Minerals reflect light.
What is a mineral's luster?
200
Hardness scale used to help identify minerals.
What is Mohs scale?
300
This type of rock has layers.
What is metamorphic rock?
300
Rocks are broken down into smaller pieces by this.
What is weathering?
300
This rocks is when magma or lava cools and hardens.
What is igneous rock?
300
Minerals ranking 7-10 on the Mohs scale.
What is pretty hard?
300
These are the 2 ways a mineral can break.
What is cleavage and fracture?
400
When lava cools quickly, a glassy rock is formed. What type of rock is this (general and specific).
What is igneous and obsidian?
400
Scientist that studies rocks
What is a geologist?
400
This rock is made from pieces of other material.
What is sedimentary rock.
400
This is a mineral's streak.
What is the powder it leaves behind after being scratched?
400
This kind of rock may be found on your countertops at home.
What is granite?
500
Obsidian, pumice, and granite belong to this type of rock.
What is igneous rock?
500
The process of this, by which soil and rock are removed from the Earth's surface by processes such as wind or water flow, and then transported and deposited in other locations, occurs during the rock cycle.
What is erosion?
500
This rock is made from shells and skeletons of dead animals.
What is limestone?
500
Minerals are what rocks are made from.
What is the difference between minerals and rocks?