Ignorant Igneous
This is molten rock found below the earth's surface.
What is magma?
Sedimentary rocks are formed from this type of material.
What is sediment?
True or false: Melting a rock can make it into a metamorphic rock.
What is false.
_________________ is the way a mineral breaks apart evenly along flat surfaces.
Cleavage
WHAT IS THE FORCE THAT PUSH SEDIMENTS TOGETHER
What is PRESSURE
This is molten rock found above the earth's surface.
What is lava?
This is the way sedimentary rocks can be formed that involves intense pressure acting upon the materials.
What is compaction?
HOW METAMORPHIC ROCKS ARE MADE
What is HEAT AND PRESSURE
This igneous rock is light colored and not very dense. It can be used on counter tops.
What is granite?
What is streak?
What is the color of the mineral powder left behind.
WHAT IGNEOUS ROCKS ARE MADE OF
What is COOLED MAGMA OR LAVA
This is the form of making a sedimentary rock that involves water mixing with minerals to form a kind of gluey substance to hold the new rock together.
What is cementation?
The way a mineral breaks apart in an uneven, or irregular way is known as _______________.
Fracture
THE 2 ROCKS THAT CAN BECOME A METAMORPHIC
What is IGNEOUS AND SEDIMENTARY
How are the types of rocks classified?
What is by how they form.
Minerals are made up of the repeating pattern of its particles, called _______________________.
Crystals
As water currents slow down what particles settle first?
What is the largest gravel.
What is wavy or parallel bands in a metamorphic rock?
What is foliation.
This example of organic sedimentary rock is formed when pieces of dead organisms are buried beneath sediment in swamps. It can be a source of energy.
What is coal?
What are two main types of luster?
What is metallic and non metallic.
This type of igneous rock is the most common, and it covers pretty much the entire ocean floor.
What is basalt?
Where does most limestone come from?
What is from shells and skeletons and ocean organisms.
This type of rock is formed when you melt a sedimentary rock.
What is igneous?
WHAT CAN CAUSE EROSION TO CREATE SEDIMENTS
What is WIND AND WATER
Whats the name of the scale used to find the hardness of minerals?
What is Mohs Scale.