Rocks and Minerals

A substance that provides energy such as heat, light, motion, or electricity as the result of a chemical change

• fossil fuel

• texture

• refinery

• fuel

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS3-3

Coal, oil, natural gas, that forms over millions of years from the ancient remains of plants and animals

• rock cycle

• petrochemical

• fossil fuel

• clastic rock

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

the chemical and physical processes that break down rock at earth's surface

• refinery

• weathering

• texture

• petrochemical

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

A type of rock that forms from the cooling of molten rock at or below the surface

• metamorphic rock

• intrusive rock

• igneous rock

• sedimentary rock

a natural substance that is not replenished with the speed at which it is consumed. Its supply is limited

• sedimentary rock

• renewable resource

• metamorphic rock

• nonrenewable resource

A factory in which crude oil is heated and separated into fuels and other products

• weathering

• texturing

• refinery

• organic

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-3

igneous rock that forms when magma hardens beneath Earth's surface

• intrusive

• chemical

• organic

• extrusive

a type of rock that forms when particles from other rocks or the remains of plants and animals are pressed and cemented together

• organic rock

• metamorphic rock

• igneous rock

• sedimentary rock

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

The look and feel of a rock's surface, determined by the size, shape, and pattern of a rock's grains

• luster

• erosion

• texture

• hardness

There are _____ minerals that make up most of the rocks on Earth's crust

• 20

• 200

• 2,000

• 20,000