Minerals #1
The term is used to describe how a mineral looks.
What is luster.
What is an inorganic solid material found in nature?
What is a mineral.
This common school item includes the mineral graphite.
What is a pencil.
What are the 3 types of rocks?
What is Igneous, Sedimentary, and Metamorphic.
Two or more minerals combine to form this solid material.
What is a rock.
What is the hardest known mineral?
What is diamond.
This useful identification technique involves rubbing a mineral across a hard plate and examining the color of the powder left behind.
What is a streak test.
Name the characteristic observed when a mineral breaks into pieces with smooth, regular edges and surface.
What is cleavage.
An igneous rock becomes sediment and eventually turns into a sedimentary rock when exposed to this.
What is weathering and erosion.
Igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks are all related to each other and are constantly recycled in this process.
What is the rock cycle.
Name the characteristic observed when a mineral breaks into jagged pieces with rough edges.
What is fracture.
This is used to classify a mineral's hardness from 1 (softest) to 10 (hardest).
What is the Mohs scale.
What is a solid material with a repeating pattern of atoms?
What is crystal.
What type of rock forms when sediments are buried in layers and squeezed by pressure from above.
What is sedimentary.
What type of rock forms when other rocks are exposed to extreme heat or pressure?
What are metamorphic.
Name the rare minerals that can be cut and polished to create a beautiful appearance.
What is gems.
A mineral or metal that is useful, mined and can be sold for a profit is called what?
What is ore.
White sand beaches are primarily made of this common silica.
What is quartz.
What do we call rocks having re-crystallized minerals that do not appear in parallel layers?
What is non-foliated.
What do we call rocks that show distinct parallel layers of minerals?
What is foliated.
The most common group of minerals is silicates. Name the most common silicate.
What is feldspar.
This common mineral is often called fool's gold.
What is pyrite.
Name the common kitchen compound made from the minerals sodium and chlorine.
What is salt.
A sedimentary rock becomes a metamorphic rock when exposed to this.
What is heat and pressure.
What type of rock is formed as magma rises through the Earth's crust and cools?
What is Igneous.