Rocks & Minerals
True or False: A mineral is a living organism.
False.
Name all 3 rock groups.
True or False: Color, hardness, magnetic, fluorescence, streak test, fracture are the ways to test a mineral.
True.
Where would you find magma?
Inside a volcano
the movement of sediment to a different area
What is erosion?
True or False: Pumice is a metamorphic rock.
False.
*Bonus 100 Points* In what rock groups does it belong?
a sedimentary rock can become a metamorphic rock by ____________ and ______________
Heat and pressure
What is the hardest mineral on Mohs Hardness Scale?
diamond
how igneous rocks are made
What is cooling and hardening of lava or magma?
this is the action that "glues" sedimentary rock together.
What is a cementation?
True or False: Metamorphic rocks have bands of wavy layers
True.
An igneous rock can become a sedimentary rock by going through...
compaction and cementation
A rock is a _______________ resource.
Nonliving
Where would you find lava?
Outside a volcano.
What is the process that breaks down rocks into sediment?
Weathering
Where are metamorphic rocks made?
Deep inside the earth
a sedimentary rock can become an igneous rock by undergoing...
melting
The way rocks change from one type to another is called?
The Rock Cycle
The process that hardens magma or lava into an igneous rock is called _______________.
Crystallization
These remains of once living organisms can be found in sedimentary rocks
Fossils
Metamorphic rocks start as...
Sedimentary rocks or Igneous rocks
the way rocks change from one type to another is
What is the rock cycle?