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Rocks
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Rock Cycle
Igneous Sedimentary Metamorphic
Fun Facts
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This rock forms from the cooling of magma
What are Igneous Rocks?
100
This thing is a naturally occurring, inorganic solid that has a crystal structure and a definite chemical composition.
What is a mineral?
100
The series of processes on earth's surface, crust, and mantle that slowly change rocks from one kind to another.
What is the Rock Cycle?
100
These are two exampels of metamorphic rocks
What is foilated rocks, nonfoilated rocks
100
This word describes how a mineral looks like when broken into little pieces
What is a mineral's fracture
200
These rocks are found all over the earth.
What are Igneous , Metamorphic, and Sedimentary rocks?
200
Galena, Topaz, Talc, Graphite, Diamond, and Apatite.
What are types of minerals?
200
These five processes make up what is known as the Rock Cycle.
What is volcanic activity, erosion, deposition, heat and pressure, and melting?
200
Igneous rocks can be used for....
What is cleaning ,polishing, sharp tools
200
There are two grain patterns called...
What is nonbanded & banded
300
This type of rock forms when the existing of a rock is changed by heat & pressure or chemical reactions.
What is Metamorphic Rock?
300
This scale ranks ten minerals from softest to hardest.
What is the Mohs Hardness Scale?
300
When an igneous rock experiences this process in the rock cycle, a metamorphic rock is formed.
What is heat and pressure?
300
Igneous rocks can be classified in its.....
What is the origin, texture, and its mineral composition
300
Some rocks have grains that are too small to see with the human eye, this grain size is called...
What is fine-grained?
400
This type of rock forms when the particles of other rocks or remains of plants and animals are pressed and cemented together.
What is Sedimentary Rock?
400
These five things are types of lusters of minerals.
What is metallic, glassy, pearly, silky, and earthy?
400
When a metamorphic rock experiences this process of the Rock Cycle, it forms magma and lava.
What is melting?
400
These four things are the processes of the sedimentary rock
What is erosin, deposition, compaction, cementation
400
In the rock cycle, erosion means...
What is the process of carrying away fragments of a rock
500
These are twoo examples of a rocks grain shape
What is rounded grain & jagged grain
500
The color of the mineral's powder.
What is the streak?
500
After they are deposited, sediments, like sand, are turned into sedimentary rock when they are compacted and...
What is cemented?
500
The two useful metamorphic rocks used today are...
What is marble & slate
500
These are two types of igneous rocks
What is obsidian & granite