Minerals
What is the easiest way to identify a mineral but is also the most unreliable
Color
Igneous Rocks produced by lava will have what size crystals?
Small Cyrstals
What is the name of the process that aids in creating sediments?
Weathering and Erosion
What is the name of the process that creates metamorphic rocks?
Heat and or Pressure
What is the name of the process that creates Magma?
Melting
What characteristic of Minerals gives rise to physical and chemical features.
Internal Arrangement of Atoms
What is the name of the Igneous Rock that is Monominerallic?
Dunite
What are the 3 characteristics of the sediments in clastic sedimentary rocks that help to identify them?
Grain size
Grain Shape
Grain arrangement
What type of rock can create a metamorphic rock?
Igneous, Sedimentary and Metamorphic
If magma solidifies what are the possible textures of Igneous Rock that is can create?
Coarse and Very Coarse
What is the name of the Shape of a Silicate?
Tetrahedron
What is the name of rock that was formed deep within the Earths crust and is composed mostly of Plagioclase Feldspar and Pyroxene?
Gabbro
Sediments that are .003 cm will create which clastic sedimentary rock?
Siltstone
What is the name of the metamorphic rock that is composed only of Mica, is foliated and has mineral alignment?
Slate
In order for Sediments to become sedimentary rock what process needs to take place?
Deposition, burial, compaction and or cementation
What is the name of a mineral that has the following characteristics, Can scratched by calcite, is non metallic, has fracture and white yellow streak?
Sulfur
What is the name of the rock that has a porphyritic texture?
Diabase
If a stream is travelling at 300 cm/sec and suddenly enters a still body of water what is the name of the sediment it will drop off first?
Boulders
As an igneous intrusion comes through the ground and passes through a limestone layer, what is the name of the metamorphic that is produced?
Limestone
In order for rocks to undergo weathering and erosion what must occur to the land?
Uplift
Which element is found in both biotite mica and Muscovite mica and makes up the greatest percent by volume of the Earth's crust?
Oxygen
Even though Scoria and Pumice are formed the same way, Pumice floats and scoria does not, explain why this happens?
Scoria is more dense
Pumice is less dense
What is the name of sedimentary rock that is formed a result of evaporation of sea water and is made of a mineral that bubbles in the presence of HCL when it is in the powdered form?
Dolostone
List in order from closest to furthest from the igneous intrusion what metamorphic rocks will be produced from a shale layer?
Gneiss, Schist, Phyllite, Slate
How can a metamorphic rock become a different metamorphic rock?
Through heat and Pressure