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Rocks
Minerals
Rock Cycle
Vocabulary
CHOICE 5
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Intrusive Igneous Rock
This type of igneous rock
cools slowly beneath the earth’s
surface.
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Diamond
What is the name of the
strongest mineral?
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Igneous Rock
This type of rock forms when
magma cools.
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Geologist
This type of scientist studies
rocks, minerals, and the
structure of earth.
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Streak
When you scratch a mineral
across a white ceramic plate,
it leaves behind a powdered line
what is this line called?
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Foliated Metamorphic Rock
What type of metamorphic rock
has distinct bands, like the
rock below?
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Transparent, Translucent, Opaque
When describing the
transparency of a mineral
what three words do you use?
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Metamorphic Rock
When heat and pressure cause
a rock to change, this type of
rock is formed.
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Natural Resource
A naturally occurring substance
on earth that is useful.
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Non renewable resource
Coal is an example of what type
of natural resource?
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Strata
The distinct lines in metamorphic
rocks are called what?
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Physical Properties
Properties such as color,
transparency, luster, and
crystal shape make up a
minerals what?
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Weathering
What is the process responsible
for breaking down rocks into
smaller and smaller pieces.
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Magma
Molten rock beneath Earth’s
surface.
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Fossil Fuel
Natural gas is an example of
what?
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Extrusive Igneous Rocks
Igneous rocks that
cool quickly, and have
small crystals
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Octahedron
An eight sided crystal
shape is called what?
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Cementation, compaction
When multiple rock sediments
are brought together, these
processes are happening.
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Transparent
The ability to transmit light so
that an object can be clearly
seen through a substance
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Sediments
Pieces of broken rock are
called what?
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Sedimentary
Fossils, like the one shown in this
picture, are most likely to form in
this type of rock
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In nature
Where must minerals always
form?
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Magma
When a rock melts,
this substance is formed.
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Opaque
An object that is unable to
transmit light.
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Cool
In order for magma to become
an igneous rock, what must it do?
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