This is how sediments are cemented together to create sedimentary rocks.
What is sedimentation?
100
This is how metamorphic rocks are formed.
What is heat and pressure?
100
These two sources are used to create igneous rocks.
What is magma and lava?
100
This mineral is used in the winter to melt the snow and ice.
What is Halite?
100
These two things are how minerals break.
What is cleavage and fracture?
200
This type of sedimentary rock forms when sediments are buried, compacted, and cemented together.
What is clastic sedimentary rock?
200
This type of metamorphic rock is created when pressure causes the mineral grains in a rock to be realigned to form parallel bands.
What is foliated metamorphic rock?
200
This type of igneous rock is formed above the Earth's surface.
What is extrusive igneous rock?
200
This mineral is used to make toothpaste.
What is fluorite?
200
In intrusive igneous rocks the crystals are _______.
What are larger crystals?
300
This type of sedimentary rock forms when water evaporates. "Most water contains dissolved minerals. As the water evaporates the minerals in the water become so concentrated that they precipitate out of solution and crystalize." ~Science Fusion Book
What is chemical sedimentary rock?
300
This type of metamorphic rock does not have aligned mineral bands and, commonly the mineral grains or crystals change size or shape.
What is non-foliated metamorphic rock?
300
This type of igneous rock is formed below the Earth's crust.
What is intrusive igneous rock?
300
We use this mineral in school everyday. (Hint: pencil)
What is graphite?
300
These two minerals are used at the summer and winter olympics.
What is gold and silver?
400
This type of sedimentary rock forms from the remains or fossils of once living plants or animals.
What is Organic Sedimentary rock?
400
This type of sedimentary rock creates the following types of metamorphic rocks: Slate, phyllite, schist, and gneiss.
What is the sedimentary rock shale?
400
This type of igneous rock is known to have very large crystals, it is intrusive, and it is used as countertop.
What is granite?
400
This mineral used to be used in school everyday. (Hint: It is known as poisonous.)
What is lead?
400
This igneous rock dries so quickly that is has zero crystals.
What is obsidian?
500
These are the three types of sedimentary rocks.
What is clastic, chemical, and organic sedimentary rocks?
500
These are the two types of metamorphic rocks.
What is foliated and non-foliated?
500
These are the two types of igneous rocks.
What is intrusive and extrusive?
500
This mineral is known as the hardest mineral on the Mohs scale.
What is diamond?
500
These things are: They must be inorganic, it must be naturally occuring, it must be a solid, and they must have a fixed chemical formula.