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Types of Rocks
The Cycle
Rock Formation
Minerals
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100
What are the three main types of rocks in the rock cycle?
What is igneous, sedimentaryy, and metamorphic rocks.
100

The bits and pieces of rocks, soil and sand.

What are sediments?

100

This is the speed in which a mineral or rock cools when there are more crystals visible.

What is slowly?

100

These are made in nature, and are inorganic.

What are minerals?

100
"Made from sediment" is this rocks definition.
What is sedimentary?
200
These types of rocks contain fossils?
What is sedimentary rocks?
200
Rocks always travel in no specific pattern in this cycle.
What is the rock cycle?
200
This is what happens to create a metamorphic rock
What is change by heat or pressure?
200

The way a mineral reflects light.

What is a mineral's luster?

200
Hardness scale used to help identify minerals.
What is Mohs scale?
300
This type of rock has layers.
What is metamorphic rock?
300
Rocks are broken down into smaller pieces by this.
What is weathering?
300
This rocks is when magma or lava cools and hardens.
What is igneous rock?
300

Minerals ranking 5.6-10 on the Mohs scale.

What is harder than glass (stronger minerals)?

300
These are the 2 ways a mineral can break.
What is cleavage and fracture?
400
When lava cools quickly, a glassy rock is formed. What type of rock is this (general and specific).
What is igneous and obsidian?
400
Scientist that studies rocks
What is a geologist?
400
This rock is made from pieces of other material.
What is sedimentary rock.
400
This is a mineral's streak.
What is the powder it leaves behind after being scratched?
400

Word that means not made from anything living or the remains of anything once living.

What is inorganic?

500

These types of rocks are found within a volcano beneath the earth's surface.

What are intrusive igneous rocks?

500
The process of this, by which soil and rock are removed from the Earth's surface by processes such as wind or water flow, and then transported and deposited in other locations, occurs during the rock cycle.
What is erosion?
500

This rock is made lava on the earth's surface.

What is extrusive igneous rock?

500

Rocks are made up of _______________.

What are minerals?

500

This word describes how sediments are "glued" together in order to become sedimentary rock.

What is cementation?