Minerals
A mineral is made of this many materials.
What is 1?
These rocks can be smooth or jagged.
What are igneous rocks.
_______ is loose material, such as bits of rocks, minerals, plants, and animals.
What is sediment?
Metamorphic rocks are made by _________ & __________.
What is heat & pressure.
Which of the following is NOT a rock family? a. gneiss b. sedimentary c. igneous d. metamorphic
What is gneiss
Minerals are made up __________
a. crystals b. elements c. rocks d. structures
What are elements?
Igneous rocks formed below the earth are formed from _____________.
What is magma?
Which two processes form sedimentary rocks? a. heating and cooling b. compaction and compression c. compression and melting d. compaction and cementation
What is compaction and cementation?
A rock that has been changed into a metamorphic rock is called the __________ rock.
What is parent?
What type of rock is formed from magma and lava?
What is igneous.
This mineral is the hardest.
What is diamond?
Igneous rocks formed above the earth are formed from ____________.
What is lava?
_________are evidence of once-living organisms in sedimentary rocks.
What are fossils?
What material forms metamorphic rocks?
What are other rocks?
This type of rock contains fossils.
What is sedimentary?
How shiny a rock or mineral is.
What is luster.
Name 2 igneous rocks.
Answers can vary.
Removing rocks from the earth.
What is quarrying?
Name 2 metamorphic rocks.
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This process breaks apart rocks.
What is weathering?
Removing minerals from the earth.
What is mining?
This can cause mudslides and floods.
What is erosion?
Three causes of weathering and erosion.
What is water, wind, and ice
The movement of rock particles.
What is erosion?
Name 2 sedimentary rocks.
Answers will vary.