Minerals
What is the color of the powdered form of a mineral?
What is the streak.
What is a common characteristic of most sedimentary rocks?
What are the two types of igneous rock?
Intrusive and Extrusive
What process does metamorphic rock go through?
Heat and pressure
What is a vertical section of soil that shows all of the different layers?
A soil profile
What is the way a surface reflects light in a mineral?
What is the luster.
What is a common example of a sedimentary rock that is found in the grand canyon?
What is sandstone
What source of molten rock forms inside the earth?
What is magma
What are the two types of metamorphic rock?
Foliated and nonfoliated
What horizon would we find closer to the Earth's surface--horizon A, B, C, or D?
Horizon A
What is the tendency of a mineral to split along specific planes of weakness to form smooth, flat surface?
What process(es) does sedimentary rock usually go through (name at least one)
what is sedimentation, cementation, and compaction
What source of molten rock forms outside the earth?
What is lava
What is it called when rocks have parallel bands?
Foliated rock
What is the first step in soil production?
The weathering of parent rock
What is a naturally occurring, usually inorganic solid that has definite crystalline structure and chemical composition?
What is a mineral
What are the three categories of sedimentary rock?
What is clastic, chemical, and organic.
What is a key phrase in the igneous rock song that might help with remembering what an igneous rock is (two words)
What is hot, cool
Limestone
Does soil grow faster on steep slopes or flat areas? Why?
Flat areas, because in steep slopes, soil erodes away with weathering.
What is the difference between a rock and a mineral?
A rock is made up of one or more minerals, but can also have organic matter in it, while a mineral is always inorganic.
What is organic.
What is an example of an intrusive igneous rock?
Granite
What is granite
What causes soil to have a red color?
Iron