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Mineral Properties
Mineral Info
Rock Info
Rock Cycle
Rock Type
100
The color of a mineral's powder on a porcelain plate.
What is STREAK?
100
The most common group of minerals that contain silicon and oxygen.
What is SILICATES?
100
Characteristic of a mineral that may not be true of a rock
What is INORGANIC? (Rocks can be organic and contain fossils!)
100
Sedimentary rocks are formed from these processes
What is CEMENTATION or SEDIMENTATION?
100
Rocks that form from heat and pressure
What is METAMORPHIC?
200
The ability of a mineral to resist scratching
What is HARDNESS?
200
An inorganic, naturally occurring, solid with a definite chemical composition and crystal structure.
What is a MINERAL?
200
This rock is very common in Virginia and used for making concrete.
What is LIMESTONE?
200
Weathering and erosion creates these small particles.
What are SEDIMENTS?
200
Rocks formed from cooling of molten magma
What is IGNEOUS?
300
The ability of a mineral to break into even sheets.
What is CLEAVAGE?
300
Most common mineral in Earth's crust
What is a FELDSPAR?
300
This mineral is used to form sand, glass, and many rocks such as sandstone.
What is QUARTZ?
300
Rocks that cool from molten lava on the surface of Earth, allowing the rocks to cool very quickly and have small crystals.
What is EXTRUSIVE IGNEOUS rocks?
300
Rock formed from the fragments of other rocks?
What is SEDIMENTARY (clastic)?
400
Minerals which break in an irregular pattern.
What is FRACTURE?
400
Hardest mineral on Moh's Hardness Scale
What is DIAMOND?
400
This rock frequently forms igneous intrusions and is used to make floor tiles and countertops.
What is GRANITE?
400
Rocks that cool from molten magma beneath the surface of Earth, allowing the rocks to cool slowly and have large crystals.
What is INTRUSIVE IGNEOUS rocks?
400
Rock formed from a chemical process such as evaporation.
What is SEDIMENTARY (Chemical)?
500
An example of a mineral that not only reacts with acid, but also produces a double image and breaks ("cleaves") into slanted rectangles.
What is CALCITE?
500
A yellowish, shiny mineral that is often mistaken for gold.
What is PYRITE?
500
Pumice floats because it has a lower THIS due to the holes created from escaping gases.
What is DENSITY?
500
A sedimentary rock formed from the remains of plants from millions of years ago and now a fossil fuel energy source.
What is COAL?
500
Rock formed from the remains of living things?
What is SEDIMENTARY (biochemical or organic)?