Identifying Minerals
A solid inorganic substance of natural occurrence
What is a mineral?
True or False: All mineral are rocks.
True
A naturally occurring solid composed of minerals, rock fragments, and sometimes other materials such as organic matter
What is a rock?
Igneous rocks are formed by what processes?
What is melting and cooling?
The process that transforms sedimentary, metamorphic, and igneous into new rocks. It is occurring continuously in nature
What is the Rock Cycle?
You can classify minerals by looking at their?
D) all the above.
A scale that tests the hardness of a mineral by scratching other material
Moh's Scale of Hardness
When a rock is weathered, eroded, deposited, compacted, and cemented, which type of rock is formed?
What is Sedimentary
If a scientist found a rock that was formed from heat and pressure, how would this rock be classified?
What is Metamorphic?
Sedimentary rock made mainly from fragments of other rock
What is clastic rock?
A student is performing an investigation by scratching a mineral on a porcelain plate and examining the powder's color.
Which question is the student most likely trying to answer?
A) What color is the mineral?
B) Which mineral has a shinier luster?
C) What is the texture of the mineral?
D) What is the mineral's streak?
D) What is the mineral's streak?
What is the characteristic of minerals that isn't that reliable when used to identify them.
What is color?
Metamorphic rock that does not show bands
What is non-foliated?
Metamorphic rock in which minerals are arranged in visible bands
What is foliated?
Clastic rock made of rounded pebbles cemented together
conglomerate
Diamond and pencil are both made from this mineral?
What is graphite?
Name two ways to identify a mineral
Look at the color, hardness, specific arrangement, texture, and luster
Dark-colored rocks that have low silica content and are rich in iron and magnesium.
What is mafic?
This rock group from England was formed in 1960
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Sedimentary rock that forms from chemicals dissolved in water
What is chemical rock?
True or False?
All rocks are minerals.
False
The hardest mineral
What is a diamond?
Forms from magma that has a large proportion of silica and feldspar and is lighter in color
What is felsic?
Process whereby freshly deposited loose grains of sediment are converted into rock through compaction and cementation
What is lithication?
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