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rocks
minerals
the rock cycle
types of rock
idenitfying minerals
100
A rock is a hard solid made of minerals.
What is a rock?
100
A mineral is any subastance with these four qualities. 1.it must be inorganic 2.it must be a solid 3.it must be natural 4.it must be crystalline
What is a mineral?
100
The rock cycle is a process that rocks go through to transform into another rock or to become a rock.
What is the rock cycle?
100
The three types of rocks are Igneous, Sedimentary, metamorphic.
What are the three types of rock?
100
The color of a mineral is easily observed physical properties.
What is color in a mineral?
200
Rocks are everywhere just look around;they are probably right under your nose!
What can you do to find a rock?
200
Basalt is the most common rock on earth.
What is the most common rock on earth?
200
Igneous Rock will form when magma cools and hardens.
When magma cools and hardens what rock is formed?
200
Igneous rock is cooled and hardened magma or lava.
What is Igneous rock?
200
Three ways to identify a mineral are color, streak, and luster.
Name three ways to identify a mineral.
300
Weathering is when a rock is broken down into smaller peices.
What is weathering of rocks?
300
Feldspars make up more than 50%of the earths crust.
What mineral makes up more than 50% of the earth crust?
300
Sedimentary rocks form through a series of processes; erosion, deposition, compaction, cementation.
What is sedimentary rock in the rock cycle?
300
Sedimentary rock has layers and bands.
What does sedimentary rock have?
300
The Mohs hardness scale is the scale used to determine the hardness of a mineral.
What is the scale used to determine hardness of a mineral?
400
Erosion of rocks is when a rock or peice of rock is moved from one place to another.
What is erosin of rocks?
400
Gemstone was used to make beds in 5000 BC.
What the use of gemstone in 5000 BC?
400
Metamorphic rocks form from great heat and pressure.
How do metamorphic rocks form?
400
Metamorphic rock forms from great heat and pressure.
What rock forms from great heat and pressure?
400
The way a mineral splits apart.
What is cleavage?
500
Eriosin is when rocks are carried away. Weathering is the process of them being broken down into smaller peices.
What is the dirrence between the erosion and weathering of rocks?
500
Luster is how light is reflected off of the rock's surface.
What is the luster of minerals?
500
the three types of rocks in the rock cycle are igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rock.
What are the types of rocks in the rock cycle?
500
The two types of organic rock are coal and limestone.
Name two types of organic rock.
500
Density equals mass divided by volume.
How is density determined?