Rocks and Minerals

a naturally occurring, inorganic solid with a definite chemical composition and an orderly arrangement of atoms

• mineral

• magma

• lava

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-1

a natural, solid mixture of minerals and/or grains

• rock

• magma

• lava

molten or liquid rock that is beneath Earth's surface

• mineral

• rock

• magma

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

Moh's Hardness scale ranges from ___ to ____ that compares the hardness of different minerals

• 1 - 10

• 2 - 30

• 1 - 50

series of processes that change one type of rock into another type of rock

• nitrogen cycle

• rock cycle

• dust cycle

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

rock material that forms where rocks are broken down into smaller pieces or dissolved in water as rocks erode

• crystal

• sediment

• rock

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

rock formed from magma or lava that has been cooled and hardened

• molten rock

• igneous rock

• mineral

the breaking down of rock by water and wind

• weathering

• deposition

• compaction

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

rock formed from extreme temperature and pressure deep inside earth

• magma rock

• sediment

• metamorphic rock

rock formed from deposition, compaction and cementation of sediments

• sedimentary rock

• igneous rock

• crystal

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2