The substance that is melted rock below the ground is called what?

What are the particles of weathered rock called?

This is the continuous process of rock changing from one type to another.

This is the type of rock that forms when earth processes change the texture and heat and pressure are applied.

These are traces or remains of a once-living thing sometimes found in sedimentary rocks.

This is the type of rock that forms from sediment that gets cemented or pressed together under pressure.

This is the type of rock that forms from magma or lava hardening.

Which missing rock type is the arrow pointing at?

Which missing rock type is the arrow pointing at?

Which missing rock type is the arrow pointing at?

How does a metamorphic rock become an igneous rock?

This rock started as molten magma but transformed after a volcano erupted. What type of rock is this?

Which of these is not part of the definition of a mineral?

Which process makes sediments?

Which process moves sediments?

Which type of igneous rock forms while on the Earth's surface?

Which type of igneous rock forms while inside the Earth?

According to the Mohs Hardness Scale, which mineral is the hardest?

If describing a mineral as metallic or non-metallic, you are describing which characteristic?

Some of the properties we use to identify minerals are:

______________ is the color of a mineral when it is ground into a powder.

If a mineral can SCRATCH another one, it is -

Calcite can scratch -

What type of property test is a mineralogist conducting when she rubs a mineral over a mirror, tile, or hard surface?

Two types of igneous rocks are:

The manner in which a mineral breaks along curved or irregular surfaces

The splitting of a mineral along smooth, flat surfaces

The scale that measures the hardness of a mineral