Rocks
Rocks formed from magma.
What are IGNEOUS ROCKS
Minerals are made up of 1 or more rocks
What is FALSE
Breaking apart of rocks into smaller pieces is this
WEATHERING
Name a mineral
per teacher's discretion
This mineral is used to brush your teeth
What is FLUORITE
Rocks formed from grains or fragments of other rocks cemented together in layers.
What are SEDIMENTARY ROCKS
Granite is an example of a mineral
What is FALSE. It is rock. An igneous rock!
Physical weathering makes rocks smaller, but does not change the rocks in any way. True or False
What is TRUE
Name a property that a geologist might use to help identify a mineral
This mineral is found in pencils
What is GRAPHITE
Rocks made from other types of rocks when heat and pressure is applied.
What are METAMORPHIC rocks
We sometimes eat minerals
What is TRUE!
The type of weathering when rocks get hot and cold, and then crack
What is PHYSICAL WEATHERING
Our state mineral
What is GALENA
This mineral is found in baby powder
What is TALC
Rocks that may contain fossils.
What are SEDIMENTARY rocks
Nature turns Sedimentary rock into metamorphic rock in this way.
What is HEAT and PRESSURE
Rubbing, grinding, and banging is called this.
What is ABRASION
Elements are in minerals, and _____ are in rocks.
What are MINERALS
This type of rock has metal in it.
What is an ORE
The process of recycling and changing rocks from one type of rock into another.
What is the ROCK CYCLE
Metamorphic rock becomes sediments through what process.
What is WEATHERING
Minerals in rocks are changed by chemicals in water and air. This process is called ______.
What is CHEMICAL WEATHERING
This rock can float in water
What is PUMICE
This element is found in graphite and diamonds
What is CARBON