Terms
What is the definition of a rock?
An inorganic substance made up of more than one mineral
What is the least reliable test for identifying rocks
Colour
What is the term for liquid rock found inside the earth's crust?
Magma
What type of weathering occurs as the result of living things?
Biological
What is the term for a jagged break of a rock?
Fracture
What scale is used when figuring out the hardness of a rock?
Moh's
Heat and pressure are used to form this type of rock
Metamorphic
A rock falling on another rock resulting in it breaking is what type of weathering?
Mechanical
What is the term for when water dissolves minerals resulting in the formation of sedimentary rock?
Cementation
Define luster
How light reflects off a rock
Compaction is one of the ways in which this type of rock is formed
Sedimentary
Rust is what type of weathering?
Chemical
What latin word does igneous rock get it's name from?
Fire
What identification test meausres the amount of light that passes through a rock?
Transparency
What is the definition of a daughter rock?
the new rock that is formed from heat and pressure
Settling of sediment is known as what?
Sedimentation
What is the term for a section of rock that is isolated (by itself) due to advanced coastal erosion?
Sea stack
What is the maximum hardness you can do the streak test on?
7
What type of rock forms from magma cooling inside the earth's crust?
Intrusive igneous rock
What is the difference between erosion and deposition?
Erosion is the movement of rocks from one location to another
Deposition is where sediment ends up as the result of the kinetic energy not being able to move it anymore