The Rock Cycle
Definitions
Identification
Processes
Review
100
Molten rock found deep in the earth.
What is Magma?
100
The actions of natural processes that break down rock and materials on the surface of Earth.
What is Weathering?
100
Glassy rock that exhibits fracture.
What is Obsidian?
100
Extreme heat causes rocks to transition from solid to liquid.
What is Melting?
100
A material containing the element Silicone.
What is a Silicate?
200
Rocks formed by temperature and pressure beneath the Earth's crust.
What is Metamorphic Rock?
200
The term for describing the surface of a rock based upon the size and shape of its interlocking crystals.
What is Texture?
200
A hard, fine-grained sedimentary rock, famous for making sparks.
What is flint?
200
Massive weight presses sedimentary particles together.
What is Compaction?
200
The study of the atmosphere and the processes that cause weather.
What is Meteorology?
300
Rock formed from weathered pieces of of other rocks and minerals.
What is Sedimentary Rock?
300
Weathered pieces of earth materials.
What is Sediment?
300
Intrusive Igneous Rock that cooled slowly.
What is Granite?
300
Mountain building pressure caused by tectonic plates colliding.
What is Regional Metamorphism?
300
A naturally occurring, inorganic solid that has a specific chemical make up and a distinct crystalline structure.
What is a Mineral?
400
Rocks that have formed from cooling lava.
What is Extrusive Igneous Rock?
400
Term that means "to change form".
What is Metamorphism?
400
The coarsest grained type of sedimentary rock.
What is Conglomerate?
400
Minerals and sediments being released from a solution as it cools or evaporates.
What is Precipitation?
400
A continuum that measures the hardness of minerals from softest (talc) to hardest (diamond).
What is the Mohs Scale?
500
The only type of rock that follows a single pathway in the Rock Cycle.
What is Sedimentary Rock?
500
A type of rock composed of organic sediments.
What is Biochemical Sedimentary Rock?
500
A non-foliated, metamorphic rock, preferred by sculptors.
What is Marble?
500
A system of processes that connects the Geosphere, Atmosphere, and Biosphere in recycling the mineral responsible for organic materials.
What is The Carbon Cycle?
500
Region of the upper mantle where rocks are hot enough to be partially molten.
What is the Asthenosphere?