This term refers to the way light is reflected off the surface of a mineral.
What is luster?
100
This is the process of breaking down a rock into smaller pieces by wind, water, and ice.
What is weathering?
100
The type of igneous rock formed inside the crust.
What is Intrusive Igneous Rock?
100
The process in which rocks are changes into metamorphic rock.
What is metamorphism?
100
Sedimentary rock that is sediments moved and deposited in layers.
What is clastic sedimentary rock?
200
This helps identify the color of the powder left behind from a mineral.
What is streak?
200
This is the process of transporting the broken down rock.
What is erosion?
200
Intrusive rock is also called this.
What is plutonic?
200
Limestone that has gone through metamorphism turns into this.
What is marble?
200
Sedimentary rocks that are formed by minerals being dissolved in water, come out of the water and are deposited.Animal shells and skeletons also form this type of rock.
What is chemical sedimentary rock?
300
This demonstrates the way a mineral will break into thin layers.
What is cleavage?
300
Layers of sediment build up over many of years.
What is sedimentation?
300
melted rock
What is molten rock or magma?
300
Type of metamorphism that occurs in large area around plate boundaries.
What is regional metamorphism?
300
The building blocks of rock.
What are minerals?
400
This is used as a tool to decide the hardness of a mineral and what it can scratch.
What is Mohs scale?
400
Sediments are dropped into their new location.
What is deposition?
400
Lava that reaches the water or the outside of the earth's crust.
What is extrusive rock?
400
Type of metamorphism that occurs when magma rises and touches other existing rocks.
What is contact metamorphism?
400
Igneous rock used for building?
What is granite?
500
This can scratch a diamond.
What is a diamond.
500
Water is squeezed out of the sediment and pushed together.
What is cementation?
500
Plutons that are exposed at the surface of the earth after the ground around them has been eroded.