Metamorphic Rock
A mineral with cleavage breaks with______.
What is smooth, flat surfaces?
This occurs when minerals dissolved in water crystallize.
What is cementation?
If a mineral is magnetic, it has the presence of this mineral in its chemical formula.
What is iron?
This is the color streak a nonmetallic mineral leaves.
What is a white streak? (Metallic minerals leave colored streaks.)
If a mineral's hardness is greater than this, it won't produce a streak.
What is a hardness of 7?
What is the rock cycle?
What is streak?
What is one type of igneous rock formed when gases escape, leaving holes in the rock?
What is pumice?
When a mineral breaks into uneven, jagged pieces, it (exhibits) show this.
What is fracture?
This is a mineral that people buy for it beauty.
What is a gemstone?
This give you an idea of what temperatures and pressures were involved in the metamorphism creating the rock.
What is the rock texture?
This metamorphic rock has mineral grains with random, interlocking texture.
What is nonfoliated rocks?
Regional metamorphism can create an entire one of these.
What are mountain ranges?
This type of metamorphic rock formation usually forms extremely large metamorphic rocks.
What is regional metamorphism?
What helps determine which agent (wind, water, gravity, etc) deposited the clasts in clastic rock?
What are the size and shape of the clasts?
This is why diamonds are so expensive.
These are rocks that form when minerals crystallize directly from water.
What are chemical rocks?
Metallic, waxy, silky, pearly, and vitreous are words used to describe this property of minerals.
What is luster?
This is the amount of matter in a mineral related to its volume.
What is density?
List 3 things that determine what type of igneous rock forms.
What are (1) magma composition (2) location where magma/lava cools (3) cooling rate?
This is the existing rock that changes during metamorphism.
What is the parent rock?
This is how minerals formed deep in the Earth are brought to the surface.
What are volcanic eruptions?
These are 2 kinds of solid structures that are constructed by marine animals from minerals that they extract from seawaterl
What are shells and coral reefs?
Which is the rarer mineral- diamonds or gold?
What is gold?
This is why it's rare to find fossils in igneous and metamorphic rocks.