Rocks
These rocks are formed from intense heat and pressure.
What are metamorphic rocks?
When you look and feel a mineral you can describe the ___________.
What is texture?
True or False: Minerals are not found in rocks.
What is false?
This type of scientist studies rocks.
What is a geologist?
This molten material is found inside a volcano.
What is magma?
These rocks can be formed under water, or made by weathering and erosion.
What are sedimentary rock?
What is the color?
This is a naturally occurring solid that can create rocks.
What are minerals?
The remains of plants and animals found in rocks.
What are fossils?
This is what magma is called when it erupts outside a volcano.
What is lava?
These rocks are formed from magma or lava.
What are igneous rocks?
Using a penny or a nail to scratch a mineral can help you determine this property.
What is hardness?
True or False: There can be more than one mineral in a rock.
What is true?
Name the process that creates and transforms rocks.
What is the rock cycle?
These rocks are formed from magma inside the earth.
What are intrusive rocks?
Sedimentary rocks are formed by __________ and ___________.
What are weathering and erosion?
This property describes dull, waxy, glassy or metallic.
This mineral is the softest.
What is talc?
This piece of land in Arizona was made from weathering and erosion.
What is the Grand Canyon?
These rocks are formed from magma on the earth's surface.
What are extrusive rocks?
A metamorphic rock is caused by _________ and __________.
What is heat and pressure?
This property describes the shape that a mineral breaks into a smooth surface.
What is cleavage?
This mineral is the hardest.
What is a diamond?
These minerals are arranged in repeating geometric shapes.
What are crystals?
True or False: A volcano can erupt under the water.
What is true?