Ignorant Igneous
This is molten rock found below the earth's surface.
What is magma?
Sedimentary rock made from bits of other rocks.
What is clastic?
how do you turn an igneous rock into metamorphic?
heat and pressure
When sediments go under compacting and cementing processes they become___________
what is the hardest mineral?
diamond
These are the 3 main classes of minerals.
What is metallic, non-metallic, metalloid.
This is molten rock found above the earth's surface.
What is lava?
The processes that turn sediments into sedimentary rocks?
What are compaction and cementation?
weathering and erosion
When igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks go through changes, this is all part of this cycle.
What is the rock cycle.
how do we test the powder color of mineral?
streak test
The atomic number of an element represents this.
What is the number of protons in the atom.
Igneous rocks are categorized as _________ or _________, depending on where the molten rock cooled.
What are extrusive and intrusive.
What type of sedimentary rock is limestone?
non clastic, chemical sedimentary rock
metamorphic rock with bands or layers
What is foliated?
The processes that turn metamorphic rocks into sediments
What are weathering and eroding?
how the light reflects off the mineral
luster
The names of elements and their atomic number are found here.
What is the periodic table of elements.
__________ igneous rocks have larger crystals than the other kind of igneous rocks.
What is intrusive?
This is created by weathering and erosion.
What is sediment?
This is what metamorphosis means.
What is change?
_________ and ____________ turn sedimentary rocks into metamorphic rocks.
Heat and pressure
why is color not a good mineral identification?
the same minerals can be different colors
A gaseous elements that doesn't readily combine with an other elements is called this.
What is a noble gas.
This forms from lava as a result of rapid cooling.
What is extrusive igneous rock.
Sediment is found mostly in this place.
What is rivers, lakes, streams and oceans.
This metamorphic rock is often used in pool tables.
What is slate?
When metamorphic and igneous rocks go under melting they turn into__________
What is magma?
a scale 1 - 10 that tests the hardness of a mineral
mohs hardness scale
These are poor conductors of heat and electricity, and are NOT malleable or ductile.
What is non-metallic elements.