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This is the breaking down of rocks into smaller pieces.
What is weathering?
100
This is the process that changes an igneous rock into a sedimentary rock.
What is weathering?
100
This type of rock has layers and fossils.
What is sedimentary?
100
This size of crystal forms when rocks cool slowly.
What are large crystals?
100
This is what happens when a rock breaks into uneven, rough surfaces.
What is fracture?
200
This is a substance made up of two or more elements.
What is a compound?
200
When lava cools to form igneous rocks, it changes from one state of matter to another. Name those two states of matter in order.
What is it changes from a liquid to a solid?
200
This type of rock has layers and has changed due to heat and pressure.
What is metamorphic?
200
This can cause rocks to weather more quickly than normal.
What is acid rain?
200
This occurs when a rock breaks into smooth, flat surfaces.
What is cleave?
300
This is the building block of matter - they cannot be broken down any farther.
What are atoms?
300
For an igneous rock to form, this must happen to the rock material.
What is it must completely melt?
300
This type of rock has no layers.
What is igneous?
300
Element, Atom, Compound This is the order of the above from smallest to largest.
What is atoms, elements, compounds?
300
This is the powdered form of a mineral.
What is streak?
400
This is a pure substance that cannot be broken down.
What is an element?
400
These are the types of rocks that can be used to make metamorphic rocks.
What are all types - igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary?
400
This is how sedimentary rocks form.
What is they form layers (deposition) and are cemented together by pressure?
400
This is why river rocks are smooth.
What is they are weathered by moving water?
400
This is the difference between lava and magma.
What is magma is below the surface and lava is on the surface of the earth?
500
This is what we call anything that has mass and takes up space.
What is matter?
500
As the number on Moh's hardness scale increases, this is what happens to the hardness of the rock.
What is it increases?
500
This is how metamorphic rocks form.
What is through heat and pressure?
500
This is how granite and pumice are different.
What is granite forms below ground and pumice forms above the ground?
500
This is the settling of rocks into layers.
What is deposition?