Rocks
The process that changes sedimentary rock to metamorphic rock.
What is Heat and Pressure?
Scale used to rank the hardness of minerals.
What is Moh's Scale of Hardness?
Things that contribute to erosion.
What are heat, cold, water, and ice?
The layers of the Earth listed from inside to outside.
What are the Inner Core, Outer Core, Mantle, and Crust?
A huge landmass made up of all of the continents.
What is Pangaea?
Rock formed from cooling Magma.
What is Igneous Rock?
The two types of breakage.
What are Cleavage and Fracture?
Two types of erosion.
What are water, wind, glacier, soil, sea?
The two parts that make up the Lithosphere.
What are the Crust and Upper Mantle?
The three types of tectonic plate boundaries.
What are Convergent, Divergent, and Transform?
The three types of rocks.
What is Igneous, Sedimentary, and Metamorphic?
Minerals with special properties.
(Give Mineral name and the Special Property)
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An example of Mechanical Weathering.
What is wind erosion, water erosion, breakage by animals, breakage by ice....
The composition of the Core.
What are Nickel and Iron?
The discovery that finally helped prove the Theory of Continental Drift.
What are Mid Ocean Ridges and Seafloor Spreading?
The process that changes sediment to sedimentary rock.
What is compaction and cementation?
The Characteristics of Minerals.
What are Luster, Color, Streak, Breakage, Hardness, and Special Properties?
An example of Chemical Weathering.
What is rust? (corrosion)
The composition or Oceanic Crust vs. Continental Crust.
Basalt = Oceanic
Granite = Continental
Where the youngest rocks on the seafloor can be found.
What are Mid-Ocean Ridges?
Two ways that sediment can become metamorphic rock.
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The definition of a Mineral.
What is...
Solid, Inorganic, Natural, Made up of Elements, and with a definite Crystalline Structure?
Caused by both Chemical and Mechanical Weathering.
What is the breaking down of rock material?
Currents in the Mantle that cause tectonic plate movement.
What are Convection Currents?
Formations created by an Oceanic and Continental Convergent Plate Boundary.
What are an Oceanic Trench, Volcanoes, and Mountains?