Igneous Rocks
This can cool and harden and form igneous rock.
What is magma or lava?
These are little pieces of rocks, pebbles, mineral grains, and shell fragments that eventually form rocks.
What are sediments?
Name the three types of rock groups.
What is Sedimentary, Igneous and Metamorphic?
The process of rocks changing from one kind of rock to another kind of rock over long periods of time.
What is the rock cycle?
Melted rock flowing from a volcano
What is Lava?
Cooling magma forms:
What is igneous rock?
These are two ways that sediments are formed.
What is weathering and erosion?
The scale that is used to measure the hardness of minerals
What is Moh's Hardness Scale
Name two ways people use rocks.
What is buildings, walls, roads, jewelry, decoration, countertops?
Press with a lot of weight and force
What is pressure?
Basalt is a kind of rock.
What is an igneous rock?
These 2 things cause metamorphic rocks to form.
What are heat and pressure?
Another way to identify minerals; it leaves the color of the powder behind when rubbed against a rough white tile.
What is streak?
What happens if an igneous rock weathers? What rock does it turn into?
What is sedimentary rock?
Person who studies rocks
Who is a geologist?
Igneous rocks are:
What is hard?
For an Igneous rock to become a sedimentary rock, what needs to happen?
What is weathering, erosion, compaction, and cementation?
A hard substance composed of one or more minerals.
What is a rock?
The 5 ways to test the properties of a mineral.
What is luster, streak, hardness, color and cleavage or fracture
Hot, liquid rock under the earth
What is Magma?
The word igneous comes from a Latin word.
What is fire?
This kind of rock has layers.
Sedimentary rocks
You can see this property just by looking at a mineral. Many minerals can be several of these.
What is color?
Most volcanoes are found in the:
Pacific Ocean
Non-living substance in rocks
What is a mineral?