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Igneous Rocks
Sedimentary rocks
Vocabulary
Minerals
100
Igneous rocks can be found around or in these.
What is a volcano?
100

This is what sedimentary rocks start off as.

sediment

100
This word means "resulting from or produced from fire."
What is Igneous?
100

The term for mass per unit volume

density

200

Liquid (extremely hot) rocks or minerals may be called _______

Lava or magma

200

When rocks are worn down by wind, water, or other natural agents

What is erosion?

200
"Made from sediment" is the definition of what word?
What is sedimentary?
200

This is a scale from 1-10 that is used to compare the hardness of minerals from softest to hardest.

Mohs hardness scale

300

Rock that is found inside a volcano is most likely make from ________

What is magma?

300
The process of compaction and cementation is also known is this.
What is lithification?
300

When the rock is made up on one mineral

Monomineralic
300

The term for the color of a mineral's powder.

Streak

400

Igneous rocks can be classified into these two types.

INTRUSIVE AND EXTRUSIVE

400

What three types of sedimentary rocks are there?

  1. Clastic (fragmental)

  2. Crystalline (chemical)

  3. Bioclastic (organic)

400
Sedimentary rocks get there name from this, the substance they are made of.
What is sediment?
400

The term for the way a mineral reflects light

Luster

500

This type of igneous rock are made when magma comes out of the Earth.

EXTRUSIVE

500

The name of the sedimentary rock which is is formed from dead plants (NOT SHELLS) . Pick one:

A) Dolomite   B) Limestone   C) Coal   D) Gypsum

COAL 

500

The type of rock made up of organic material

Bioclastic

500

This term describes the way a mineral breaks apart

breakage