Crystals & Minerals
Rocks Part 1
Rocks Part 2
Rocks part 3
The Rock Cycle
100
Minerals can only be called minerals if they can be made by non living things. True or false?
True
100
Igneous rock that formed from magma and cooled very slowly UNDERNEATH the earth's surface is called ________.
What is intrusive rock
100
These small pieces or particles make up sedimentary rock. They can be other rocks or plant and animal organisms
What is sediments
100
This is how metamorphic rocks are created.
What is extreme heat and pressure
100
If a rock changes due to pressure it would be called a?
What is sedimentary rock
200
This measurement of minerals is usually done by attempting to scratch one mineral against another
What is hardness
200
This type of rock is formed from lava ON the earth's surface.
What is extrusive rock
200
There are rocks in minerals, True or False
False, there are minerals in rocks
How many different minerals make up most of earth??
200
These types of rocks can become metamorphic rocks
What is igneous, sedimentary and other metamorphic rocks
200
Any type of rock can be turned into sediment by
What is weathering and erosion
300
Name two ways crystals can be formed
When lava or magma cools, when water evaporates, or by heat and pressure
300
Daily Double - An extrusive rock with dark color, fine grains and makes up most of the ocean floor
Daily Double - What is basalt.
300
If rock is coarse what is it describing?
Double points for what does it mean?
It's texture and it has large particle size
300
This is a thin rock that was used instead of paper.
What is slate?
300
The layers of sediment become pressed together over time
What is compaction
400
Geologists study the minerals all the time. Name 4 properties of minerals geologists use to identify them
Luster, Streak, Cleavage, Hardness, Color, Density and Crystal Structure
400
This type of igneous rock is black with a glassy texture happens when lava cools down very quickly
What is obsidan
400
What types of rocks might you find intact fossils in?
Sedimentary Rocks
400
The texture of a metamorphic rock arranged in parallel layers is called
What is foliated
400
The tectonic process that forces rocks onto the earth's surface is called __________
What is uplift
500
Igneous rock cools very very quickly.When it forms the rock could would probably have no what?
What is smooth or shiny or no visible crystals
500
What type of igneous rock makes the largest crystals?
Why? (Double points)
Name a common one? (Triple Points)
Intrusive, because it cools slower, and granite is the most common
500
What 3 main things would you use to describe a rock?
Tell me what each means for triple points
Origin, Composition/color, Texture
500
What does metamorphic mean?
What is "to change form"?
500
Daily Double - The processes by which sediments become sedimentary rocks - TWO words
compaction or cementation