Minerals
It is true that minerals are organic, naturally occurring and solid?
What is false?
This is how intrusive igneous rocks are created.
What is the solidification of magma?
This is how extrusive igneous rocks are created.
What is the solidification of lava?
This is what sedimentary rocks are made of.
This is the least reliable way to identify a mineral?
What is color?
An intrusive igneous rock has this type of texture.
What is phaneritic or coarse-grained?
This type of volcano has gentle slopes due to basaltic lava flows.
What is a shield volcano?
This type of rock is created in a swamp environment.
What is coal?
This scale measures the hardness of a mineral?
What is the Mohs Scale?
This is the largest igneous intrusion.
What is a batholith?
Another word for a volcanic mudflow.
What is a lahar?
This sedimentary rock has poorly sorted, angular grains.
What is breccia?
This is the type of breakage that has smooth, flat sides.
What is cleavage?
This is a discordant tubular igneous intrusion.
What is a dike?
The gaseous components of magma.
What are volcanic volatiles?
What is the scientific name for compaction and cementation?
What is lithification?
This predicts the order of crystallization of minerals from cooling magmas.
What is Bowen's Reaction Series?
This is another name for intrusive igneous rock.
What is plutonic?
This volcano erupted in May 1980 that resulted in a pyroclastic flow and lahar.
What is Mount St. Helens?
A collective term for all the chemical, physical and biological changes that take place after sediments are deposited and during and after lithification.
What is diagenesis?