Rocks and Minerals
How can a sedimentary rock become an igneous rock?
What is melted and cooled?
The outermost layer of the earth
What is the crust?
The formula for density
What is mass divided by volume?
Texture, hardness, streak, luster, color, and cleavage
What are the ways to identify a mineral?
The color of powder a mineral leaves behind
What is streak?
Which rock can form when magma cools?
What is Igneous?
Mountains, earthquakes, and volcanoes
What can convergent boundaries create?
The formula for mass
What is density times volume
Which of the following minerals CANNOT be scratched by quartz or apatite?
(Hint: use your scale to measure hardness)
What is Diamond, Topaz, and Corundum?
Measured by how easy it is to scratch
What is hardness?
How can a sedimentary rock become a metamorphic rock?
What is heat and pressure?
When tectonic plates slide past eachother and create earthquakes
What is a transform boundary?
Length- 6cm, Width- 3cm, Height- 1cm, Mass 36g. What is the density?
2
The color of powder a mineral leaves behind
What is streak?
Some minerals break along a flat surface
What is cleavage?
How can a metamorphic rock become a sedimentary rock?
What is weathering and erosion?
What causes the movement of tectonic plates?
What is convection currents?
This rock’s mass is 24.03 g. Its volume is 8.9 cm3.
What is 2.7?
The LEAST important property to identify a mineral
What is color?
The way light reflects off of a mineral
What is luster?
Two minerals have the same luster, but one can scratch the other. What conclusion can you draw?
What is the hardness is different, but the luster is the same.
So much pressure it acts like a solid but is really a liquid
What is inner core?
This rock’s mass is 29.20 g. Its volume is 11.23 cm3
What is 2.6?
This property of a mineral is MOST likely being tested when it is scratched with a fingernail
What is hardness?
The hardest mineral to scratch
What is a diamond?