Rocks & Minerals
Molten rock under the Earth's surface.
What is magma?
Material from a living organism
What is organic?
What compounds are made up of.
What are molecules?
The amount of light that the surface of a mineral reflects
What is luster?
Made up of small rock particles, clay and organic material. The top layer of the earth's crust.
Once magma reaches the earth's surface it becomes this.
What is lava?
Type of rock created when another rock is structurally changed into another type of rock.
What is Metamorphic rock?
No light can pass through
What is Opaque?
Light travels easily through
What is transparent?
Smallest classification of rock
What is silt and clay?
Name two types of igneous rocks?
Name one type of Metamorphic rock.
Shale, slate, Phyllite, Schist, Gneiss, Marble, Quartzite
Some light can pass through.
What is translucent?
A scientist who studies the earth.
What is a Geologist?
The scale that classifies rocks by size
What is the Wentworth scale?
Rock formed from Lithification; when rock, soil and dust is carried by water or wind and deposited in a different area
What is Sedimentary rock?
A substance that cannot be broken down into different substances by mechanical means.
What is an element?
The study of minerals
What is Mineralogy?
Scientist who studies waves traveling through the Earth during earthquakes.
What is a Seismologist?
Name at least two ways minerals and rocks are different
Rocks may contain organic material; minerals do not.
A rock is an aggregate (mixture) of materials; minerals contain only one element.
What is coal?
Most common type of stone found in Florida.
What is Limestone?
Machine that records waves traveling through the Earth during earthquakes.
What is a Seismograph?
Scientist who described minerals and developed ways to place them into categories based on their properties.
Who is Anselmus de Boodt?