Minerals
the word that describes minerals that means it has never been alive.
What is inorganic?
an igneous rock can become a _____________ rock by heat and pressure
What is metamorphic?
color, hardness, magnetic, fluorescence, streak test, cleavage/fracture
What are the ways to test a mineral?
the two ways to describe where an igneous rock was formed (think below the Earth's surface or above)
intrusive or extrusive
the movement of sediment to a different area
What is erosion?
Metamorphic rocks can be made from what other type of rock?
What is any other type of rock?
When magma cools slowly, these types of crystals form- large or small
What is large?
This is the hardest mineral on Mohs Hardness Scale?ond
What is diamond?
how igneous rocks are made
What is cooling and hardening of lava or magma?
__________ and __________ occur when sediments are pressed and glued together in the formation of sedimentary rocks.
What is compaction and cementation?
this is the type of metamorphic rock we looked at in class that is used in building (our sample was white)
What is marble?
This type of rock is formed from smaller pieces of rock formed by weathering and erosion.
What is sedimentary rock?
the testing of a mineral that tests how a mineral will reflect light.
What is luster?
igneous rocks that are made outside a volcano, made from lava
What are extrusive igneous rocks?
This is the name for the breaking down of rock.
What is weathering?
not on Earth's surface, but deep inside the Earth
What is where metamorphic rocks are made?
Sandstone is this type of rock.
what is sedimentary?
the testing of a mineral that requires you to scrape the mineral along a piece of tile to see the color left behind
What is the streak test?
igneous rocks that are made underground from magma, while inside the volcano
What are intrusive igneous rocks?
These remains of once living organisms can be found in sedimentary rocks
What are fossils?
word that describes a metamorphic rock that has layers
what are foliated?
the cycle that describes the way rocks change from one type to another is
What is the rock cycle?