Question | Answer |
What do you call molten rock inside the earth? | magma |
What are the characteristics of sedimentary rocks? | layered, grainy texture. |
Magma that cools below the earth's surface forms what type of rock? | igneous |
what type of processes occur during the rock cycle? | cementation, compaction, melting, heat and preassure, weathering, erosion. |
What type of crystals form in slowly cooling magma? | large |
an _____ is a mineral or rock containing a substance that can be mined for a profit. | ore |
what property of a mineral describes how it reflects light? | luster |
a _____ is a solid in which atoms are arranged in a repeating pattern. | cleavage |
the rock cycle indicates that each type of rock can ____. | change |
name four properties that a mineral may posess | luster, cleavage, fracture,crystal grains. |
59-63 cannot be typed. | 59-63 cannot be typed. |
a diagram shows the three types of rocks and the processes that form them, what is the diagram called? | the rock cycle. |
lava and _____ can cool to become igneous rocks. | magma |
heat and preassure can turn sedimentary rocks, or _______ rocks into metamorphic rocks. | igneous |
metamorphic rock can _____ and cool to become ingneous rocks. | melt |
weathering and erosion break down igneous and other types of rocks into smaller pieces called ____ | sediments |