Uses & Properties
What are minerals and rocks made up of?
Minerals are made up of chemical elements and rocks are made up of minerals
Where in Spain can igneous rocks be found?
Olot in Girona, Calatrava ́s region in Ciudad Real, Gata ́s cape in Murcia or Canary islands
What kind of rocks are fossils preserved in?
Sedimentary rocks such as limestone or sandstone
Uluru is an _________ or “island mountain”.
Inselberg.
Which three things can you use to identify a rock?
Its mineral composition, origin and texture
Name the 2 classifications for metamorphic rocks.
Foliated rocks and non-foliated rocks
What are coal and petroleum used for? (3 main things)
For obtaining energy in industry, for heating our houses and for moving our vehicles.
________: Used in nuclear power plants and other nuclear applications.
Monazite.
Name 4 uses of rocks.
Construction, ornamental (sculptures), pottery and glass
Name the 3 classifications for igneous rocks.
Plutonic, volcanic and intermediate
Describe the fossil-making process.
Animal dies, flesh rots away and bones are left behind, water level rises and sediment buries the bones, a thick sequence of sediments accumulates over the bones and gradually the bones fossilise, erosion reveals the layer of strata containing the bones
Uluru is a _________ _________ in central Australia.
Standstone Formation.
Name three examples of texture used to describe/identify rocks.
Glass, aphanitic (not visible unless using a microscope), phaneritic (visible with simple vision) or vesicular (holes in the surface)
Name the 3 classifications for sedimentary rocks.
Clastic, chemical and organic rocks
What are two main environmental effects caused by burning fossil fuels?
The increasing of the greenhouse effect and nitrogen and sulphur oxides (which create acid rain)
Ilmenite and Rutile: Processed into a _____ pigment used in cosmetics, _____ and ______.
White, paper, rubber.
Name the 4 different types of coal.
Peat, lignite, hard coal and anthracite
Name one example each for foliated rocks and non-foliated rocks.
Slate for foliated and marble for non-foliated
Name 4 of the most commonly found fossils.
Trilobites, echinoids, graptolite, coral or brachiopods
Elements mined include aluminium, ____, copper, iron, lithium, magnesium, manganese, nickel, platinum, tin, uranium, zinc and ______.
Gold, silver.