Rocks and Mineral
In what type of rocks are most fossils found?
Sedimentary Rocks
What are rocks made from?
Rocks are made of minerals
What shows how rocks change from one form to another form of rock?
Rock Cycle
What type of rocks are formed when sediments are cemented and pressed together?
Sedimentary Rocks
What is a natural, nonliving substance that makes up rocks?
Mineral
A type of rock that forms from melted rock that cools and hardens.
What is igneous rock?
This process involves wind, water, and ice moving rocks.
What is erosion?
Rocks are constantly moving through the rock cycle at all times. True or False?
True
What types of rocks form when magma cools and hardens?
Igneous Rocks
What is the softest mineral?
Talc
What do we use Moh's scale for?
To test how hard a mineral is
The dropping of bits of rock and soil by a river as it flows
deposition
During the rock cycle, how can a rock become an igneous rock?
Any rock can melt and cool to form an igneous rock.
What types of rocks are formed from extreme heat and pressure?
Metamorphic Rocks
What is the hardest mineral?
Diamond
A rock formation looks like it has many different layers, which type of rock would it be.
What is sedimentary?
This process of wind, water, and ice breaking apart rocks.
What is weathering
How can some rocks become metamorphic during the rock cycle?
Heat and Pressure
Can more than one mineral share the same properties?
No, each mineral has its own set of properties. No two minerals have the same set of properties.
Name 4 properties of identifying minerals.
-color -luster- -steak -hardness
The continuous process in which one type of rock changes into another type.
What is the rock cycle?
Dropping weathered rock by wind or moving water.
What is deposition?
In the rock cycle, what breaks rocks into sediments and carries them away?
Weathering and Erosion
What is the difference between intrusive and extrusive igneous rocks?
Intrusive-in or under the ground
Extrusive-on or above the ground
Name three of the five characteristics that identify minerals
solid, inorganic, natural, definite chemical composition, crystalline structure