Rock the Cycle
A solid mixture of one or more minerals.
What is a rock?
Igneous rocks form from this (key word)
What is magma/lava?
The process of water, wind, or ice breaking rocks down into sediment.
What is weathering/erosion?
Sedimentary rocks form from this (key word)
What is sediment?
The building blocks of rocks.
What is a mineral?
The process of one type of rock changing into another type of rock.
What is the rock cycle?
Molten rock in the Earth.
What is magma?
In the rock cycle, rocks DO NOT follow this.
What is a single path?
The process of 'glueing' minerals/sediment together.
What is cementation?
This system of Earth is made up of living things.
What is the biosphere?
Metamorphic rocks form from these two things (key words)
What is heat and pressure?
Molten rock on the Earth's surface.
What is lava?
Igneous, Metamorphic, and Sedimentary
What are the 3 types of rocks?
The process of squeezing minerals/sediments together.
What is compaction?
This system of the Earth is made up of rigid layers of Earth.
What is the lithosphere?
The location of the formation of metamorphic rocks.
What is only deep underground?
This type of igneous rock forms in the Earth.
What is intrusive?
This type of igneous rocks form on the Earth's surface.
What is extrusive?
The location of where sedimentary rocks form.
What is only at the surface?
This property of a mineral is determined from scratching the minerals powder color.
What is streak?
The process through which a metamorphic rock becomes an igneous rock.
What is melting and cooling of magma?
The Latin word for fire.
What is ignis?
The process of a rock beginning as a igneous rock and changes into a metamorphic rock.
What is heat and pressure?
Sedeo in Latin meaning.
What is to sit?
Minerals have 5 characteristics. Which one is missing?
definite chemical composition, inorganic, naturally occurring, crystal structure, and _____________
What is a solid?