What number step is when the lava flows from the volcano, cools and becomes igneous rock?
What is step 1?
100
What is NOT a property of minerals: color, hardness, taste or streak?
What is taste?
100
These are the building blocks of rocks.
What are minerals?
100
This is how smooth or rough a mineral is.
What is texture?
100
I am the type of rock that is formed in layers.
What is sedimentary rock?
200
What step is when the metamorphic rock heats up and melts and either flows back towards the volcano or cools inside the Earth?
What is step 4?
200
Which is NOT a cause of weathering? : flowing water, rain, wind, or tornados
What are tornados?
200
This is the way light bounces off the surface of a mineral.
What is luster?
200
An energy source that formed millions of years ago from the remains of plants and animals.
What are fossil fuels?
200
I am the type of rock that is formed from other rocks when they are put under heat and pressure?
What is metamorphic rock?
300
Which step is when the layers build up and push down. As the rocks gets closer to the Earth's core, the heat changes the rock to be metamorphic rock?
What is step 3?
300
The process of a rock changing its size and shape without changing its chemical makeup is called what?
What is physical weathering?
300
These are useful materials that are replaced quickly.
What are renewable resources?
300
This is the dropping off of weathered rock.
What is deposition?
300
I am the type of rock that is formed when lava from a volcano cools down.
What is igneous rock?
400
Which step is when weathering and erosion breaks down the igneous rock and its pieces and then are deposited onto a rocky surface which forms sedimentary rock?
What is step 2?
400
Most fossils are found inside what type of rock?
What is sedimentary rock?
400
This is the weathering and removal of rock or soil.
What is erosion?
400
The living and nonliving things that make up an area is called this.
What is the environment?
400
What is turning the faucet off when not using the water and using retention ponds called?
What is conserving water?
500
This is the patterned path a rock takes starting as lava and cooling to igneous rock, breaking down to form layers to form sedimentary rock, changing into metamorphic rock and then melting to become igneous rock again?
What is the rock cycle?
500
What is a example of a renewable resource?
What is sunshine?
500
This is when harmful substances are added to the environment.
What is pollution?
500
The slow process of that breaks rocks down into smaller pieces is called this.
What is weathering?
500
This is evidence of organisms that lived long ago.