Metamorphic and Sedimentary Rocks
Igneous Rocks
Minerals
Weathering, Erosion, and Deposition
Scientific Method
Miscellaneous
100
This type of rock forms when smaller pieces of other rocks, or sediments, are compacted and cemented together.
What are sedimentary rocks?
100
These two molten liquids are what all igneous rocks form from.
What are magma and lava?
100
One mineral is identifiable by its rotten-eggs smell.
What is Sulfur?
100
Pieces of broken off rocks and make up sedimentary rocks.
What are sediments?
100
A student hypothesizes that a rock sample formed from ocean sediment. This would support the student's hypothesis.
A textbook about rock formation methods
Clam shells found within the rock sample
A model of the different crustal plate boundaries
Rock samples from several locations on Earth
What are clam shells found within the rock sample?
100
This mineral is yellow in color and called "Fool's Gold".
What is pyrite?
200
This type of rock forms when rocks are altered by heat and pressure, but not enough to causing melting.
What are metamorphic rocks?
200
This type of igneous rock slowly cools and crystallizes from magma underground; possesses larger mineral crystals/grains.
What are intrusive igneous rocks?
200
Test that reveals a rock's resistance to wear; involves fingernails, nails, pennies, and glass.
What is the hardness or scratch test?
200
The process of moving sediments from one point to another - involves ice, wind, and water.
What is erosion?
200
A student claims that the full Moon occurs once a month. This process will verify the student's claim.
What is "observing"?
200
This mineral is used in glass and electronics.
What is Quartz?
300
Fossils are most frequently found in buried within this type of rock and indicate where this rock formed, such as in the ocean.
What are sedimentary rocks?
300
This type of igneous rock quickly cools and crystallizes from lava above ground; possesses smaller or non-existent mineral crystals/grains.
What are extrusive igneous rocks?
300
Mineral test that reveals the powder color left behind on an unglazed, porcelain plate.
What is the streak test?
300
This form of weathering breaks rocks into smaller pieces.
What is mechanical/physical weathering?
300
Students use rain gauges to compare average rainfall on Virginia's Coastal Plain and Piedmont regions. This variable is what is manipulated.
What is location of the gauge?
300
A sample of soil was mixed with water and then settled. The jar is a model for this process.
Deposition of sediment in a lake bed
Evaporation of water from a muddy pond
Erosion of rock particles by water
Formation of soil from parent material
What is deposition of sediment in a lake bed?
400
Metamorphic rocks display this feature when they have bands or layers.
What are foliations/laminations?
400
Specific locations in which magma erupts from the surface and becomes lava.
What are volcanoes?
400
This mineral quality is caused by weak bonds between flat layers.
What is cleavage?
400
This form of weathering wears down rock through dissolving it or reactions.
What is chemical weathering?
400
These two tools are best for measuring the density of a small piece of silver ore.
What are a graduated cylinder and a balance?
400
This mineral property indicates how the surface appears and reflects light.
What is luster?
500
The presence of many metamorphic rocks in Virginia is an indication that the area has been subjected to these two effects.
What are heat and pressure?
500
Why intrusive igneous rocks tend to form larger mineral crystals/grains than extrusive igneous rocks.
What are slower cooling, crystallizing, and hardening rates?
500
Property that most gemstones, such as diamonds, corundum, and topaz all share.
What is high/extreme hardness?
500
When a river enters into a lake or ocean, it slows down, and deposits this size of sediments first, right at the river mouth.
What are larger and heavier sediments?
500
This sequence of numbers is the correct order of scientific method steps in the image.
What is 2, 1, 4, 3?
500
Why each mineral has a unique crystal shape.
What is the arrangement of its atoms?