1. 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 Vocabulary Rock Cycle Identifying Minerals Weathering And Erosion Think About It

2. An object that is solid, formed in nature, and has never been alive.

3. What is a mineral?

4. A naturally formed solid made of one or more minerals

5. What is a rock?

6. The breaking down of rocks into smaller pieces

7. What is weathering?

8. The movement of weathered rock and soil.

9. What is erosion?

10. A huge block of moving ice.

11. What is a glacier?

12. The process of one kind of rock changing into another kind.

13. What is the rock cycle?

14. I form from melted rock that comes from a volcano.

15. What is an igneous rock?

16. I form from heat and pressure.

17. What is a metamorphic rock?

18. I form from broken down rocks and soil that settle into layers.

19. What is a sedimentary rock?

20. A river could change its path over time because of this.

21. What is sediment?

22. We use these to identify minerals.

23. What are properties?

24. We might use a fingernail, penny, or nail to find this out.

25. What is a mineral’s hardness?

26. When we use a white tile and rub a mineral on it, see a powder that we call this.

27. What is a streak?

28. If we say a mineral is shiny, glassy, or dull, we are describing this.

29. What is luster?

30. We use this scale to describe a mineral’s hardness.

31. What is the Mohs Scale?

32. These things cause weathering.

33. What are water, ice, wind, plant roots, and chemicals?

34. I am slow erosion.

35. What is creep?

36. I can cause sand dunes.

37. What is wind?

38. I smooth out rocks.

39. What is water?

40. A valley can be formed by this.

41. What is a glacier?

42. I am a beach, but I’m not as wide as I used to be. I am smaller because of this.

43. What is erosion?

44. I am an igneous rock stored in Mrs. Lachman’s classroom. I will be this kind of rock in 50 years if I stay in the same place.

45. What is an igneous rock?

46. I am a valley formed by a glacier, but it is a warm place. My temperature a long time ago must have been this.

47. What is much colder?

48. If I am an igneous rock that has cooled really quickly, I might look like this.

49. What is glass?

50. A mineral we use in class to write with.

51. What is graphite?