Minerals & Rocks
What rocks are made up of
What are minerals?
What is igneous?
What weathering is followed by
What is erosion?
What erosion is followed by
What is deposition?
What 2 things come before deposition
What are weathering and erosion?
Minerals
The rock type that holds fossils
What is sedimentary?
The type of weathering whose agents are animals, plants, fungi, and microorganisms
What is biological weathering?
What coastal erosion forms
What deposition brings to new land that helps ecosystems
What are nutrients?
The three types of rocks are called
The only rock type that can form both on the surface and under the surface
The type of weathering whose agents are wind, water, ice, and changes in temperature
What is mechanical weathering?
What river erosion forms
What are valleys or canyons?
When an erosion agent deposits something
Naturally occurring, dry, solid pieces of earth with no definite shape
What are rocks?
The rock type that forms from heat and pressure
The type of weathering whose agents are salts, acids, CO2, and oxidation
What is chemical weathering?
What wind erosion forms
What is built by deposition
What is land (ex. riverbank, dune, beach)?
The process by which minerals form
What is crystallization?
This rock type is the softest
Weathering of rock can break off small pieces called
What are sediments?
The 4 human activities that cause erosion
What are mining, farming, logging, and construction?
What is the biggest/heaviest?