Earth Science
Melting turns a solid rock into this kind. This rock forms beneath the surface, when sedimentary rock, igneous rock, and or metamorphic rock melts.
What is magma rock?
Cooling turns magma into this kind of rock. This rock forms when magma cools inside earth (intrusive) or exits earth's surface as lava and then cools outside earth's surface (extrusive).
What is igneous rock?
Erosion turns all rock types into sediment. This rock can be broken into sediments (small pieces).
What is sedimentary rock?
This rock forms when heat and pressure changes the existing rock.
What is metamorphic rock?
The most unreliable property of minerals that focuses on external appearance only.
A property of minerals that refers to the color of the mineral's powder.
What is streak?
What is luster?
A property of minerals that refers to the measure of relative ability of a mineral to resist scratching.
What is density OR What is specific gravity?
A property of minerals that refers to the shape of a single well formed crystal.
What is crystal habit?
The ability of a mineral to break along parallel surfaces of chemical bonding.
What is cleavage?
A property of minerals that refers to any break in a mineral that does not occur along a cleavage.
What is fracture?
A national park that was an island in the past that was used for camping and gathering food, as well as seclusion and isolation.
What is Alcatraz Island?
A national park that was a destination point for several Native Americans as they would boat in their canoes.
What is Glacier Bay?
A national park created to protect the remains of three large pueblos from the 13th century.
What is Navajo National Monument?
A national park that is known for it's peaks and sharp features that can be connected to past volcanic activity and Native American groups that camped there in warmer months to hunt and gather.
What is Lassen Volcanic National Park?
A national park that is in the deserts of Arizona. It is the nation's first archeological preserve that is known for its irrigation canals built by ancestral Sonoran Desert people.
What is Casa Grande Ruins?
What is sleeping bear dunes national lakeshore?