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CHANGING ROCKS
MAKING ROCKS
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2. What type of matter does not contain materials that were once part of living things?
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3. inorganic
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4. What is fracture?
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5. This is how a mineral looks when it breaks apart in an irregular, blocky way.
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6. What is cleavage?
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7. When a mineral breaks or splits along flat surfaces.
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8. What is inorganic matter?
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9. Matter that does not contain materials that were once part of living things.
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10. Define mineral
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11. A naturally occurring, inorganic solid that has a crystal structure and a definite chemical composition.
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12. What is the streak of a mineral?
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13. The color left behind when a rock is rubbed against a ceramic tile.
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14. How do you determine the hardness of a mineral?
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15. The scratch test
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16. What is harder a diamond or a streak plate?
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17. A diamond, so it does not leave a streak.
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18. If you were going to make a rock, what would you use for ingredients?
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19. minerals
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20. What scale is used to rate hardness of minerals?
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21. Moh’s hardness scale .
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22. Which rock type can have a record of the events that happened when it was being formed?
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23. Sedimentary
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24. What happens to sedimentary rocks that turns them into igneous rocks?
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25. The rock melts into magma ( at a subduction zone) and then cools into rock.
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26. What process happens to rock inside the crust to create magma?
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27. melting
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28. What type of temperatures are needed to make magma
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29. High temperatures are needed to melt the rock into magma
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30. How does lava become igneous rock?
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31. Erupting from a volcano or vent and cooling on the surface of the crust.
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32. What two actions change igneous or sedimentary rock into metamorphic rock?
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33. Heating and pressure
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34. When heat and pressure are applied to limestone, it turns into the metamorphic rock named _____.
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35. marble
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36. What type of rock forms when pebbles and small pieces of sand settle to the bottom of the ocean and get compressed?
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37. Sedimentary
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38. Which rock type can have a record of the events that happened when it was being formed?
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39. Sedimentary
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40. Rock particles that are melted and then cool and harden are considered what type of rock?
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41. Igneous rock
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42. A rock with large crystal sizes shows that it cooled quickly or slowly?
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43. It cooled slowly
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44. When sedimentary rock has large pebbles, is it called detrital or chemical rock?
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45. Detrital rock
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46. What part of the crust is the site of melting rocks?
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47. Deeper in the crust in a magma pit.
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48. What is chemical weathering?
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49. When liquids like acid rain slowly dissolve rocks or statues made of rock.
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50. What are the four processes that rocks must go through to become sediments and sedimentary rock?
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51. Weathering, erosion, cementation, compaction
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