Minerals
This is the most common mineral on Earth (an example is purple amethyst or rose______).
What is quartz?
This product comes from weathering and erosion.
These are the 3 types of rocks.
What are igneous, sedimentary and igneous?
This is the difference between magma and lava.
What is that magma is found beneath the earth's surface and lava is magma that has surfaced?
This is a property of minerals that cannot be used alone to identify a mineral.
These are the two types of igneous rock which differ based on where they are formed.
What are extrusive and intrusive igneous rocks?
These rocks can be both organic and inorganic.
What are sedimentary rocks?
This process can only occur deep beneath the Earth's surface.
What is metamorphosis (metamorphic rock formation)?
These are 6 properties used to identify and differentiate minerals.
Any type of rock can directly become these products.
What are sediments, magma/lava and metamorphic rock?
This causes some igneous rocks to be porous.
What are gas bubbles?
This is the most predominant type of rock in Missouri.
These are the 5 characteristics of a mineral.
What is solid, inorganic, naturally derived, crystalline structure, definite chemical compositon?
This process causes alteration in the chemical composition of a rock.
What is heat and pressure (or metamorphosis)?
This causes the same types of rocks to be different colors.
What are minerals (the mineral composition in rocks)?
These are the Missouri state rock and mineral.
What is Mozarkite and Galena?
This mineral type is a 9 on Mohs Hardness scale (ex. Saphire).
What is Corundum?
This is the process by which magma/lava becomes sedimentary rock.
This is the term for the distinct, repetative layers in metamorphic rocks.
What is foliated?
This observation in different types of rocks tells you something about the rate at which these two rocks cooled.
What is the size of the crystals in the rock?