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Types of Rock
The Rock Cycle
Minerals
Challenge
100
The three types of rocks.
What are igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic?
100
Igneous rocks break apart into sediment due to these two things.
What is weathering and erosion?
100
The building blocks or rocks.
What are minerals?
100
True or false, rocks continue to change from one form to another.
True.
200
This rock is formed when magma cools.
What is an igneous rock?
200
Sedimentary rocks become metamorphic rocks due to these two things.
What is heath and pressure?
200
The hardest mineral known to man.
What is diamond?
200
A person who studies rocks.
What is a geologist?
300
Rock formed by layers of sediment.
What is sedimentary rock?
300
True or false, a sedimentary rock could never become an igneous rock.
False.
300
One property used to classify minerals.
What is texture, color, luster, hardness, or size.
300
Materials that settle to the bottom of liquid.
What are sediments?
400
Rock that is formed when a rock is changed due to heat or pressure.
What is a metamorphic rock?
400
When metamorphic rocks melt they become this.
What is magma?
400
Scale used to test hardness of a mineral.
What is the Moh's hardness scale?
400
An example of something made from rocks or minerals that we use today.
What is jewelry, buildings, counter tops, floors, etc.
500
Granite is an example of this.
What is an igneous rock?
500
The color a mineral leaves behind when it is crushed or rubbed into a powder.
What is streak?
500
The way a light reflects light.
What is luster?