This scale ranks ten minerals from softest(1) to hardest (10)
What is the Moh's hardness scale?
100
A type of rock formed from the cooling of molten rock.
What is igneous rock
100
This is the most important influence on soil formation.
What are Parent Materials?
100
A mineral that ranks #1 on the Moh's hardness scale
What is talc?
100
Igneous
What type of rock forms through the cooling and solidification of magma or lava?
200
A mineral that has this splits easily
What is cleavage.
200
A series of processes on the surface and inside Earth that slowly changes rocks from one kind to another.
What is the rock cycle?
200
Parent Materials are made up of these two objects.
What are rocks and sediment?
200
The destructive process in which water or wind loosens and carries away fragments of rock
What is erosion?
200
These are little pieces of rocks, pebbles, mineral grains, and shell fragments that eventually form rocks. They form by the deposition of material at the Earth's surface and within bodies of water.
What are sediments and how are they formed?
300
What is the color of a mineral's powder called?
What is streak.
300
A type of rock that forms from an existing rock that is changed by heat, pressure, or chemical reactions.
What is a metamorphic rock?
300
This part of soil is well known for its drainage properties.
What is Sand?
300
A mineral that ranks #10 on the Moh's hardness scale.
What is diamond?
300
This type of rock form through the transformation of preexisting rock types.
How are Metamorphic rocks formed?
400
A solid in which the atoms are arranged in a pattern that repeats again and again.
What is a crystal.
400
A type of rock that forms when particles from other rocks or the remains of plants and animals are pressed and cemented together.
What is sedimentary rock?
400
The breakdown rate of rocks is highly dependent on this.
What is climate?
400
Small, solid pieces of material that come from rocks or organisms.
What is sediment.
400
Heat and pressure as well as weathering and erosion.
What 2 things causes sedimentary and metamorphic rocks to form?
500
A naturally occurring, inorganic solid that has a crystal structure and a definite chemical composition.
What is a mineral.
500
A solid mixture of minerals and other materials.
What is a rock.
500
Acids in this object help to break down rocks and soil.
What are roots?
500
Explain how a metamorphic rock could change into a igneous rock.
What is Melted by magma.
500
The earth's crust changes and causes new rocks to form and old rocks to change. A mineral comes from something that was never alive. Other minerals were formed from living materials like animals or vegetables.