Minerals
Rocks & Rock Cycle
Igneous Rocks
Metamorphic Rocks
Sedimentary Rocks
100
A mineral's tendency to break off unevenly along rough edges.
What is fracture?
100
This type of rock is formed from heat and pressure.
What is metamorphic rock?
100
This type of igneous rock is formed when magma cools slowly beneath the Earth's surface.
What is intrusive igneous rock?
100
This type of foliation shows a light-dark-light-dark pattern.
What is banding?
100
This process essential to the formation of sedimentary rocks transports sediment from one place to another.
What is erosion?
200
This physical property of minerals can be measured using the Moh's Scale.
What is hardness?
200
These 2 processes are involved in the formation of igneous rocks.
What are melting and solidification?
200
This word means molten rock on the Earth's surface.
What is lava?
200
This type of metamorphism involves intrusion of magma.
What is contact metamorphism?
200
Clastic sedimentary rocks are categorized based on this characteristic.
What is particle size?
300
This determines a mineral's shape, its hardness, and whether it has cleavage or fracture.
What is atomic arrangement?
300
Any rock can turn into this when weathered.
What is sediment?
300
The color of igneous rocks that are less dense and more felsic.
What is lighter?
300
This metamorphic rock is non-foliated, can be composed of various minerals, and forms from only contact metamoprhism.
What is hornfels?
300
This type of sedimentary rock is formed from chemical processes involving evaporation or precipitation.
What is crystalline sedimentary rock?
400
All silicate minerals contain these 2 elements.
What are silicon (Si) and oxygen (O)?
400
A naturally-occurring solid mixture with 1+ minerals or organic matters.
What is a rock?
400
The texture that describes a crystal size of 10mm or larger.
What is very coarse?
400
This metamorphic rock forms from exposing schist to heat and pressure.
What is gneiss?
400
This grain size is smaller than boulders but larger than pebbles.
What is cobble?
500
This is the reason why coal, which is formed from plant remains, cannot be considered a mineral.
It is not inorganic / It is organic.
500
70% of the rocks on Earth's surface are this type of rock.
What is sedimentary rock?
500
This word means containing gas pockets.
What is vesicular?
500
This is the parent rock of slate.
What is shale?
500
These 2 minerals act as "rock glue" to cement sediment together.
What are calcite and quartz?
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