True or false
Metamorphic rocks tend to have a ribbon-like pattern in them and visible shiny crystals that are formed during the slow heating of the tock.
What is true?
100
Igneous rocks are formed when melted rocks are ________.
What is cooled?
100
Word bank: weather moving fossils rocks
_________ are the traces of dead plants or animals.
What are fossils?
100
True or false
The rock cycle is a sequence of repeating events that cause rocks to stay the same.
What is false?
100
A tool used to measure hardness is _________.
What is a penny, paper clip, or a nail?
200
An example of a metamorphic rock is gneiss/shale.
What is slate?
200
Melted rocks below the Earth's surface are called ______.
What is magma.
200
Weathering causes rocks to break into ________.
What are sediments?
200
How many different types of rocks are there?
What is three?
200
The measurement around a rock is called _______.
What is circumference?
300
A metamorphic rock will turn into sediment due to weathering/cementation.
What is weathering?
300
Melted rocks above the Earth's surface are called _______.
What is lava?
300
Over time sediments cement together and form __________ rocks.
What is sedimentary?
300
95% of the Earth's crust is made of this type of rock.
What is igneous rock?
300
The measurement across a rocks is called the __________.
What is the diameter?
400
A metamorphic rock will turn into lava/magma due to ________.
What is melting?
400
An example of an igneous rock is pumice/ limestone.
What is pumice?
400
An example of a sedimentary rock is sandstone/ basalt.
What is a sandstone?
400
The word metamorphic literally means ________.
What is "changed form".
400
A mixture of different minerals is called _________.
What is a rock?
500
When rocks are exposed to intense _____ and ______ they transform into metamorphic rocks.
What is heat and pressure?
500
True or False
It is warmer inside the Earth's crust so magma cools slower lava.
What is true?
500
Rain, ice , wind and running water are all natural occurrences that can cause a rock to break apart which is known as ________.
What is weathering?
500
What are three different types of rocks?
What is metamorphic, igneous, and sedimentary.
500
A good way to test the hardness of a rock is to do a ______________ test.