Minerals
The big 3 minerals are:
What are feldspar, quartz and mica
A rock is...
What is a naturally occurring solid mixture of one or minerals or organic matter.
Sedimentary rocks are formed by...
What is erosion.
Metamorphic rocks change with...
What is heat and pressue.
True or False: Rocks are made up of minerals.
True
Minerals come from the...
What is cooling of magma
Rocks are classified by...
What is how they are formed, their composition and texture.
Sediments are moved by...
Regional metamorphism happens due to...
What is pressure.
A sedimentary rock needs to undergo___________ to become metamorphic...
What is heat and pressue.
There are two uses of minerals:
What are gems and ores
Igneous rocks begin as...
What is magma.
Sedimentary rocks form... (where)
Where is at or near Earth's surface.
Contact metamorphism happens due to...
What is heat.
An igneous rock needs to do the following to become sedimentary...
1. Weather and Erode
2. Create Sediment
3. Travel Deposit and Harden
If all minerals are solids and have a rock like appearance, what would be different about them?
What is Color, Luster, Shape, Streak, Hardness?
Felsic rocks are...
Mafic rocks are...
What are dark colored.
True or False: Foliated rocks have aligned grains
True
A foliated rock...
Contains aligned grains of flat minerals
A metamorphic rock needs to do the following to become igneous...
1. Melt
2. Become Magma
3. Become Lava or Cool and Crystallize
Define minerals:
Natural inorganic solids that join together becoming crystals to make unique compositions.
Coarse grained rocks...
Fine grained rocks...
Coal is formed from the accumulation and preservation of...
What are plant materials
A non foliated rock....
Has no grains arranged in bands.
Pick the four characteristics of minerals that can be used to identify them.
A) shape
B) color
C) luster
D) texture
E) mass
F) size
G) hardness
H) weight
I) streak
J) cleavage
B) color, C) luster, G) hardness, I) streak, J) cleavage