Show:
Vocabulary
Rock Cycle
Moh's Scale
Concepts
Volcanoes and Earthquakes
100
A material that is made up of one or more minerals.
What is a rock?
100
A rock that is formed when magma hardens.
What is an igneous rock?
100
A diamond's hardness on the Moh's Scale.
What is 10?
100
The three properties of rocks.
What are luster, streak, and hardness?
100
Natural disaster that occurs when plates move against one another.
What is an earthquake?
200
The color of the powder left behind when a mineral is scraped against a white tile.
What is streak?
200
The two things that change any rock into a metamorphic rock.
What are heat and pressure?
200
The range of Moh's Hardness Scale.
What is 1-10?
200
The process in which rocks are broken into pieces due to wind, water, or ice.
What is weathering?
200
The four layers of the Earth.
What are crust, mantle, outer core, and inner core?
300
The way light interacts with the surface of a rock, mineral, or crystal?
What is luster?
300
Rocks in which fossils can be found.
What are sedimentary rocks?
300
Has a hardness of 1 on Moh's Scale.
What is talc?
300
The process which allows for magma to turn into an igneous rock.
What is cooling?
300
The scale that measures the damage caused by an earthquake.
What is the Richter Scale?
400
The measure of a mineral's ability to resist begin scratched.
What is hardness?
400
The three different types of rocks.
What are igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks?
400
The hardness of a fingernail.
What is 2.5?
400
The type of rock that was used to make Mt. Rushmore.
What is igneous rock?
400
The point on the Earth's crust that is directly on top of the point where the first movement of an earthquake occurs.
What is the epicenter?
500
The repeating pattern that makes up a mineral.
What is crystal?
500
The movement of weathered rocks by water, wind, or other natural agents.
What is erosion?
500
Fluorite's hardness on Moh's Scale.
What is 4?
500
Rock that is formed from igneous rocks that have been weathered and eroded.
What is sedimentary rock?
500
The idea that all of the 7 continents were once one giant landmass.
What is pangea?