Vocabulary
Types of Rocks
Minerals
Mineral Chart
Random
100
Tiny pieces that make up sedimentary rocks.
Sediments
100
Formed by bits of sediments
Sedimentary Rocks
100
one or more minerals make up_______
rocks
100
easily scratched by fingernail, white and dull
Talc
100
Sedimentary rocks are found near
River, stream, water...
200
Something that has lasted from a living thing from long ago.
fossil
200
Formed by heat and pressure
Metamorphic rock
200
Found in______
nature
200
scratched by a nail, white, bubbles with acid
calcite
200
Rock found deep within the Earth's Surface
Metamorphic
300
A solid material made up from 1 or more minerals
Rocks
300
Found near volcanoes
Igneous Rocks
300
Minerals have never been ____________
alive
300
Scratched by a fingernail, black/gray, glassy
Mica
300
Forms in Sedimentary rocks because of the layers that bury dead plants and animals
fossils
400
Rock that is formed by lava and magma cooling and hardening.
Igneous Rock
400
We classify rocks by _____ types of properties (looking for a number)
5
400
The hardest mineral is_________
diamond
400
describing a rock as glassy or dull is describing the rock's_______________
Luster
400
Sedimentary rock can form into a ________ rock by heat and pressure.
metamorphic rock
500
Make up rocks.
Minerals
500
Three types of Rocks
Sedimentary, Igneous, Metamorphic
500
Name of the scale used to name hardness of minerals.
Moh's
500
Rock can be scratched by a fingernail, nail or glass describes a rock's ____________
hardness
500
1 way a rocks and minerals are different
rocks are made up from minerals or minerals have never been alive, rocks have