What is the soft layer of the mantle in which the lithosphere floats
100
When geologists say that a mineral always contains certain elements in specific amounts they mean that the mineral is?
What is has a definite chemical composition
100
A mineral with a hardness off 6 will scratch a mineral with a hardness more than six?
What is false, less.
100
Gold is an example of a mineral that occurs as an ________ which is composed of one kind of atom.
What is ____________= element
100
What are the five characteristics a substance must have to be a mineral?
What is naturally occurring, inorganic, solid, crystal structure, and definite chemical composition.
200
What is pressure?
What is the amount of force pushing on surface or area
200
Igneous rock that cool very quickly when they form may have a texture that is.....?
What is an and friction plate movement or the heat of the mantle
200
Halite crystals form when a solution of water and salt condenses?
What is false; evaporate.
200
You can roughly compare the__________ of two mineral samples of the same size by lifting them?
What is ___________= density
200
Why are coal and glass marbles not minerals?
What is because coal came from something living and glass marbles are man-made.
300
What does subduction and fault mean?
What is when one tectonic plate slides under the mid-ocean-ridge (subduction) and a break in the earths crust where slabs of rock slip past each other.
300
Chalk formed from sediments made of skeletons of microscopic living things in the ocean must be a...?
What is organic rock
300
A mineral must be formed by a man-made process to be considered as a mineral, and each major group of rock follow only one pathway in the rock cycle?
What is False;naturally occurring and many
300
The texture of slate is said to be __________ __________ because its minerals particles can only be seen with a microscope?
What is __________ __________= fine grained
300
How are rocks related to minerals?
What is because they both form from under earths crust.
400
What is the epicenter and silica?
What is the point on earths surface directly above earthquakes fault (epicenter) and a material formed from the elements oxygen and silicon. silica is found in magma. (silica)
400
If you broke a mineral into tiny pieces each piece would...?
What is each piece would still show the same crystal structure.
400
Granite is an igneous rock made up of the minerals quartz,mica,feldspar,and hornblende, and High pressure can change an igneous rock into sedimentary?
What is true then false; metomorphic
400
Sediments settle out of moving water by the process if _________?
What is ________= deposition
400
What is the difference in how rocks and minerals are classified?
What is minerals form from crystallization and rocks form from magma/lava or water/wind.
500
What is batholith and and island arc?
What is a mass of rock formed when a large body of magma cools inside the crust (batholith) and a string of islands formed by the volcanoes along a deep ocean trench.(island arc)
500
Igneous rock that cool very quickly when they form may have a rock with a texture that is... where does metamorphic rock form... and what step in the rock cycle would be required to change granite into sandstone?
What is smooth and shiny with no visible grain, deep underground and dissolved calcite in ocean water cement granite sediment together.
500
The small particles of rock or the remains of living things that make up sedimentary rock are called cement and examples of clastic rocks which are made up of particles of other rocks include sandstone, shale, and breccia
What is false than true; sediment
500
When mineral solutions evaporate a type of sedimentary called a ____________ rock can form?
What is __________= chemical (rock)
500
How could a grain of sand that washes up on the beach end up someday as lava pouring out of a volcano?