Properties of Minerals
Classifying Rocks &. Igneous Rocks
Sedimentary/Metamorphic Rocks & The Rock Cycle
Grab Bag
Trivia!
100

Meaning formed from non-living things.

Inorganic

100

The look and feel of a rock's surface.

Texture

100

Small, solid pieces of material that come from living things.

Sediment

100

Marble and slate are important materials for ______. (Hint: What do humans use it for?)

building and sculptures.

100

Who was the king of the gods in Greek mythology?

Zeus

200

A solid with a repeating pattern of particles.

Crystal

200

Rock formed from the cooling of magma or lava.

Igneous Rock
200

The process by which running water, wind, or ice carry away bits of broken-up rock.

Erosion

200

The process by which atoms are rearranged to form a material with a crystal structure.

Crystallization

200

Which planet is called "the blue planet"?

Earth

300

A rounded, hollow rock lined with mineral crystals.

Geode

300

Sedimentary rock forms when the remains of plants and animals or other particles of rocks are _________.

Pressed together.

300

A series of processes that occur on Earth's surface and in the crust and mantle that slowly change rocks from one kind to another.

The rock cycle.

300

A narrow channel or slab of a mineral that is different from the surrounding rock.

Vein

300

What geometric shape has four equal sides and four right angles?

Square

400

The color of a mineral's powder.

Streak

400

Metamorphic rock forms when a rock is changed by ______ or _______.

heat or pressure.
400

Chemical rock forms when minerals dissolved in _______ crystallize.

a water solution

400

Describes the thin, flat layering found in most metamorphic rocks.

Foliated

400

Who is the god of war in Norse mythology?

Thor

500
The way in which light is reflected from a mineral's surface.

Luster

500

The particles or minerals that make up other rocks.

Grains

500

The effect of forces upon rock.

Weathering

500

Suppose you have a diamond ring and are able to scratch your granite countertop with it.  Remembering Moh's Hardness Scale, what does this say about the two rocks?

Diamonds are harder than granite.

500

How many wives did King Henry VIII have?

Six

600

The ability to split easily along flat surfaces.

Cleavage

600

The name given to the approximately twenty minerals that make up most of the rocks of earth's crust.

Rock-forming minerals.

600

The process by which sediment settles out of the water or wind carrying it.

Deposition

600

What are the three major types of sedimentary rock?

1. Clastic

2. Organic

3. Chemical

600

What human blood type is known as the "universal donor"?

O Negative

700

Describes how a mineral looks when it breaks apart in an irregular way.

Fracture

700

A light-colored rock with high silica content.

Granite

700

When is a clastic rock formed?

When rock fragments are squeezed together.

700

Put the following in the CORRECT order:

1. Deposition

2. Weathering and Erosion

3. Cementation

4. Compaction

1. Weathering and Erosion

2. Deposition

3. Compaction

4. Cementation

700

What is the elemental abbreviation for Gold?

Au

800

The scale that identifies minerals by how hard they are.

Moh's Hardness Scale

800

Igneous rock that formed from lava that erupted and cooled.

Extrusive rock

800

Organic rock forms when ________ are deposited in layers.

the remains of plants and animals

800

What is the formula for Density? (Remember, I love Density!)

D=mass/volume

800

What is the only planet that rotates on its side?

Uranus

900

A mixture in which one substance is dissolved in another.

Solution

900

Intrusive rock forms when magma hardens where?

Beneath the surface of the Earth.

900

The process in which dissolved minerals crystallize and clue particles of sediment together.

Cementation

900

Name the three ways igneous rocks are classified.

1. Origin

2. Texture

3. Mineral Composition

900

What is the official animal of Scotland?

Unicorn

1000

Name all five characteristics of a mineral.

1. Naturally occuring

2. Solid

3. Forms by inorganic processes

4. Crystal structure

5. Definite chemical composition

1000
A dark-colored rock with low silica content.

Basalt

1000

Compaction presses _____ together.

Sediments

1000

Name the three ways that minerals can form.

1. Organic processes.

2. Crystallization from being dissolved in solutions.

3. Crystallization from magma and cooling lava.

1000

What is the fear of spiders called?

Arachnophobia 

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