Rocks
Rocks are made from one or more kinds of these?
What are minerals.
This scale is used to compare the hardness of minerals.
What is the Mohs Hardness Scale.
Pumice is this type of rock.
What is igneous.
What is the name of the mineral often referred to as "fool's gold"?
What is pyrite.
What are the 3 categories or rocks.
What is Igneous, Sedimentary, Metamorphic.
This is the name for eroded materials that settle on the bottom of rivers, lakes, and oceans.
What is sediment.
A physical property observed in minerals where a mineral breaks along flat planes.
What is cleavage.
Fossils might be found in this type of rock.
What is sedimentary.
What is the scientific name for someone who studies rocks and minerals.
What is a geologist.
The White House in Washington, D.C. is made from this type of rock.
What is Sedimentary (sandstone).
This is the way that rocks on the Earth change from one type of rock to another?
What is the rock cycle.
This describes how a mineral reflects light.
What is luster.
This type of igneous rock forms from magma that is inside the crust.
What is intrusive.
True or False
The rock cycle has a beginning, middle, and end.
What is False.
The rock cycle is continuous.
The way the surface of an object feels is called?
What is texture.
This type of rock forms when lava cools?
What is igneous rock.
This test is performed to find the true color of a mineral and involves dragging the mineral along a special plate.
What is a streak test.
What are the two types of metamorphic rocks.
What is Foliated and Nonfoliated.
What are the 8 ways a geologist uses to classifying a mineral?
What is color, streak, luster, density, hardness, crystal systems, cleavage and fracture, special properties.
What are the 3 types(categories) of Sedimentary rock.
What is Clastic, Organic, and Chemical.
This type of rock forms when heat and pressure are applied to any other type of rock.
What is metamorphic rock.
Name the softest known mineral and the hardest known mineral?
What is talc and diamond.
Name the steps in order to form a sedimentary rock.
What is erosion,deposition, compaction, and cememtation.
What are the 5 ways geologist determine what is a mineral?
What is Naturally occurring, Inorganic, Solid, Crystal Structure, Definite Chemical Composition.
Obsidian is this type of rock.
What is Igneous (Extrusive).