ROCKS AND MINERAL

ROCKS AND MINERALS SIMILAR AND DIFFERENT

• They both are solids
• They have different chemical compositions
• Rocks are formed by minerals
• Rocks do not have christals

4 LAYERS OF THE EARTH

• Crust the brown hard outer part or surface.
• Mantle the interior of the earth.
• Outer core is a thick layer of earth.
• Inner core the earths innermost part

LIST AND DEFINE 3 PARTS OF THE EARTHS CRUST

• Crust
• Oceanic crust
• Continenental crust
• Mountains are the thickest
• Ocean is the thinnest

WHAT CAUSES ROCKS TO CHANGE

• Weather
• Erosion
• Pressure
• Solidfication
• It changes the rocks by the pressure smushes the rock and changes it's form the rock heat melts the rock

DEFINE AND EXPLAIN THE DIFFERENCES/SIMILARITIES OF:METAMOPHIC,SEDIMENTARY,AND IGNEOUS ROCK

• An increase of heat or pressure changes a metamorphic rock.
• And a igneous changes because it was melted and it became solid
• Sedimentary rocks are formed by sediment that is deposited over time

WHAT WOULD YOU SEE INSIDE A CAVE

• Dripping water and rocks
• Stalactites a tapering thing hanging from the roof of a cave
• Stalagmite a mound or tapering column coming up from the bottom of a cave

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