Rocks and Minerals Study Questions

 A solid material made up of one or more minerals

• Geologist

• Rock

• Mineral

_______ is the The wearing down and moving of rocks and soil from one place to another. 

An idealized cycle of processes undergone by rocks in the Earth's crust, involving igneous intrusion, uplift, erosion, transportation, deposition as sedimentary rock, metamorphism, remelting

• weathering

• rock cycle

• erosion

The process that breaks down rocks into smaller pieces which is caused by wind, rain, ice, chemicals, freezing, or thawing.

• Erosion

• Deposition

• Weathering

 When the particles carried by water, ice, or wind by the forces of erosion are deposited (dropped) in another location

• Weathering

• Deposition

• Erosion

True or False: The changes in a rock cycle occur very quickly. 

• True

• False

Erosion is the _______________________________________

• wearing down and moving of rocks and soil from one place to another.

• process that breaks down rocks into smaller pieces which is caused by wind, rain, ice, chemicals, freezing, or thawing.

Erosion is usually ______________ that you cannot tell it is happening.

• so slow

• so fast

Examples of erosion that occur quickly

• Landslides

• Mudslides

• weathering

• storms

The way a mineral breaks

• hardness

• cleavage

• luster