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?
The way light reflects off of a mineral.
What is luster?
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?
This kind of rock is formed when magma cools beneath the Earth's surface.
What is an igneous rock?
These are two ways that sediments are formed.
What is weathering and erosion?
This explains the relationship between rocks and minerals?
Minerals are the basic building blocks from which rocks are made.
A fossil is ___________.
What is the imprint of an organism on a rock?
Name two ways people use rocks.
What is buildings, walls, roads, jewelry, decoration, countertops?
Sheila is classifying the rocks in her collection. She knows that limestone often contains fossils. In which category of rock should she classify these rocks?
Sedimentary Rocks
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?
This is Solid matter found in nature
What is a mineral?
What happens if an igneous rock weathers? What rock does it turn into?
What is sedimentary rock?
For an Igneous rock to become a sedimentary rock, what needs to happen?
What is weathering, erosion, compaction, and cementation?
As it cools, magma turns into solid rock on the surface. What type of rock does magma form as it cools?
Igneous Rocks
The mineral can easily break into flat sections.
Cleavage
A hard substance composed of one or more minerals.
What is a rock?
The hardest mineral.
What is a diamond?
Question 3
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The type of rock that can contain fossils.
What is sedimentary?
You can see this property just by looking at a mineral. Many minerals can be several of these.
What is color?
Question 6
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The 5 ways to test the properties of a mineral.
What is luster, streak, hardness, color and cleavage or fracture