Identifying Rocks
The names of the types of igneous rocks and their differences.
What is intrusive, which forms underground, and extrusive, which forms above ground?
The amount of time the rock cycle occurs.
What is over millions of millions of years?
The two reasons that color of a mineral is not the only test used to identify minerals.
What is because a mineral can occur in different colors and more than one mineral can have the same color?
The type of rock that is made of compacted sediments.
What is sedimentary rock?
What the mineral Diamond is mainly used for.
What is jewelry?
The names of the sedimentary rock types and their differences.
What is clastic, which is compacted sediments, chemical, which forms from evaporated water, and organic, which forms from fossils?
A cycle in which metamorphic rock becomes metamorphic rock.
What is metamorphic rock is applied heat/pressure becoming a different type of metamorphic rock?
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Fill in the blanks,
When testing hardness of a mineral, if the mineral scratches glass it is _______ than 5.5 and if it does not then it is ________ than 5.5.
What is harder and lower?
The definition of igneous rock.
What is rock that forms from crystallized magma or lava?
What the mineral Fluorite is used in.
What is toothpaste?
The names of the metamorphic rock types and the difference of them.
What is foliated which has minerals that appear in parallel bands and non-foliated which don't have the mineral bands?
A cycle in which metamorphic rock becomes sedimentary rock.
What is metamorphic rock melts creating magma and then solidifies making igneous rock, which weathers and erodes as sediment and is compacted and cemented together forming sedimentary rock?
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What is that cleavage has predictable, flat sides and fracture means the mineral breaks randomly and unevenly?
The type of rock that always forms under Earth's surface and by heat and pressure.
What is metamorphic rock?
The common item that is made of the mineral Gypsum.
What is dry wall?
The size differences of crystals between extrusive and intrusive igneous rocks and why this is true.
What is intrusive rocks have larger crystals than extrusive rocks because since they form underground, it takes longer for the magma to cool so the crystals can grow larger?
A cycle in which sedimentary rock becomes igneous rock.
What is sedimentary rock is applied heat/pressure, becoming metamorphic rock, which then melts creating magma which crystallizes and forms igneous rock?
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True or False,
Streak is how light reflects off a mineral while luster is the color of the powder of a mineral.
What is false?
The definition of metamorphic rock.
What is a rock that forms from other rocks due to heat and pressure?
The household item that is made of the mineral Talc.
What is baby powder?
A difference between foliated and non-foliated metamorphic rocks other than the appearance.
What is non-foliated rocks contain few minerals while foliated rocks have many?
4 factors of rock transforming to a different rock in the rock cycle.
What is weathering and erosion, heat and pressure, deposition and compaction, and cooling and crystallization?
The 5 criteria that must be met in order to be considered a mineral.
What is must be a solid, naturally occurring, inorganic, fixed formula, and arranged in orderly structure.
The definition of igneous rock.
What is a rock that forms when magma or lava cools and solidifies?
Two minerals that are both made up of carbon, but because of the arrangement of atoms they are different.
What is Diamond and Graphite?