Igneous
Metamorphic
Sedimentary
minerals
other
100
What type of rocks is formed when magma from deep inside the earth comes to the surface and cools quickly?
Igneous rocks
100
What type of metamorphism is found at plate boundaries?
Regional metamorphism
100
What are formed over time due to pressure on sediment deposits?
Rock layers
100
Minerals are never made from non-living materials? True or false
True
100
What is the difference between rocks and minerals?
Minerals are made from elements; rocks are made from minerals.
200
What does the size of the crystals tell you about granite?
Granite turns solid very slowly
200
What is a metamorphic rock that has a layer or stripped appearance?
Foliated
200
What is found only in sedimentary rocks?
Fossils
200
What is the place where minerals are formed?
Out in nature
200
Hardness, luster, streak, and color are some ways to classify minerals? True or False
True
300
What is hot fluid or semifluid material below or within the earth's crust from which lava and other igneous rock is formed by cooling?
Magma
300
What is a metamorphic rock that looks "messy"?
Non-foliated
300
What are the specific minerals found in rocks?
Mineral compositions
300
What is the correct number of mineral groups?
7
300
Streak is always the same color of the mineral that makes it, true or false?
False
400
What is the place where a geologist is most likely to find igneous rocks?
At the base of a volcano.
400
What cause metamorphic rocks to form?
high pressure and temperatures
400
What is the grain size and shape, sorting, and rounding of the sediments that form the rock.
Texture
400
What is not a mineral group: intrusive, oxides, native elements, halides?
intrusive
400
What is not an igneous rock: obsidian, pumice, basalt,or limestone?
Limestone
500
What type of rocks form by the crystallization of magma at the surface of the Earth?
Igneous rocks
500
What type of metamorphism is cause by intrusive hot magma?
contactmetamorphisism
500
What are 2 characteristics that geologist use to identify sedimentary rocks?
mineral composition and texture
500
True or false, minerals have a definite chemical composition?
True
500
What is a mafic igneous rock: gneiss, marble, scoria,or schist
Scoria
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