This type of rock is formed when you cool melted lava or magma.

This rock was formed by smaller pieces of rock that settled at the bottom of a lake millions of years ago. The sediments were compacted and cemented together. What type of rock is this?

When magma cools slowly below the Earth’s surface,.........mineral crystals form

Are natural, nonliving solid crystals that make up rocks

The way the surface of a mineral reflects light is called _________________ .

How easily the surface of a mineral can be scratched is ________________ .

The color of the powder that a mineral leaves when it is scratched across a special plate is

called ___________________.

Minerals that break in smoothly, flat surfaces have _________________ .

All around the world, each mineral has the same chemical

The crystals in each mineral are the same shape

Talk is the hardest mineral

The diamond is the hardest mineral

All around the world, rocks have the same _________________ composition.

A mineral that is graded with a 10 on the scale because of its hardness is the:

To determine the hardness of a mineral, you can use _______ Scale.

A rock that is changed by heat and pressure deep inside Earth.

The continuous process in which one type of rock changes into another type.

_______________ forms from sediment that is cemented together.

A solid in nature that is made of one or more minerals.

Melted rock below the ground

A rock that forms when melted rock, or magma, cools and hardens.

Victoria is observing a piece of limestone with a hand lens. Her teacher says that sedimentary rocks have many properties. What is one of the properties of sedimentary rocks?

What are the three types of Rocks?

You can see layers in this rock. Could be sand, or pebbles.

This type of rock is MOST likely to contain fossils.this is called.....................

This rock started as molten magma. What type of rock is this?

Melted material that creates an igneous rock is called ___________.

basalt is an example of

pumice is an example of

granite is an example of

granite formed when magma cooled quickly

Basalt is formed when lava cooled quickly by water

Shale is an example of

Limestone, a sedimentary rock, can become the metamorphic rock

the mineral graphite by heat and pressure can turn graphite into

The igneous rock granite can become the metamorphic rock