Properties of Minerals/The Rock Cycle
This is a naturally occurring solid that can form by inorganic processes and that has a crystal structure and a definite chemical composition.
What is a mineral?
This is a type of rock that forms when particles form other rocks or the remains of plants and animals are pressed and cemented together.
What is sedimentary rock?
These are igneous rock that forms from lava on Earth’s surface.
What are extrusive rocks?
This is small, solid pieces of material that come from rocks or the remains of organisms; earth materials deposited by erosion.
What is sediment?
This is the term used to describe metamorphic rocks that have grains arranged in parallel layers or bands.
What is foliated rock?
This is the color of a minerals powder.
What is streak?
This is a usually light-colored igneous rock that is found in continental crust.
What is granite?
These are igneous rocks that forms when magma hardens beneath Earth’s surface.
What are intrusive rocks?
This is the chemical and physical processes that break down rock and other substances.
What is weathering?
This is a rock that forms from another rock as a result of heat, pressure, or both heat and pressure.
What is a metamorphic rock?
This is a series of processes on the surface and inside the Earth that slowly changes rocks from one kind to another.
What is the Rock Cycle?
This is a type of rock that forms from an existing rock that is changed by heat, pressure, or chemical reactions.
What is metamorphic rock?
Throughout history, people have used these igneous rocks for these two main purposes.
What is tools and building materials?
This is sedimentary rock that forms from remains of organisms deposited in thick layers.
What is organic rock?
This is how would you identify a foliated metamorphic rock.
What is its mineral grains that are arranged in thin, flat layers?
This is an important part of the rock cycle.
What is destroying rocks in the Earth's crust?
This is basis that geologists uses to classify a rock.
What is origin?
This forms when lava cools quickly on Earth's surface.
How does rhyolite form?
This is how have people used sedimentary rocks throughout history.
What is tools and building materials?
These are the three ways Metamorphic rocks change! Go!
What is heat, time and pressure?
These three properties might identify an unknown mineral for a geologist. You need to list three of the four.
What is color, hardness, luster, and streak?
This is is a rock that forms from molten material that erupts violently from a volcano.
What is igneous?
These are the three things by which igneous rocks are classified.
What is origin, texture and mineral composition?
As layer upon layer of sediments are deposited, This explains which process presses them together.
What is compaction?
These are the two most used metamorphic rocks used as building materials. Hint: the leaning tower of Pisa!
What are marble and slate?