Minerals
What are the building blocks of minerals?
What are elements?
Mohs scale is used to determine what property of minerals?
What is hardness?
Rocks are a mixture of minerals (True or False)?
What is True?
A rock that forms from cooling lava is classified as an ____.
What is an extrusive igneous rock?
A foliated metamorphic rock forms when crystals ____.
What is form a visible band?
When two or more elements bond together in definite proportions, they form a(n)
What is a compound?
What is true about minerals (2 things)?
What is "Naturally occurring and inorganic"?
The three groups of rocks are classified by ____.
what is how they formed?
As the rate of cooling of igneous rocks increases, the size of the crystals that form ____.
What is decreases?
Igneous rocks that cool slowly beneath Earth’s crust are ____.
What is intrusive?
What is a naturally occurring, inorganic solid with an orderly crystalline structure and a definite chemical composition?
What is a mineral?
How could you determine if a sample of gold is pure?
What is density or streak color?
If granite undergoes high temperatures and high pressures at depth within Earth, what type of rock will be formed? Assume that the granite does not melt.
What is a metamorphic rock?
What is the correct order of the processes involved in sedimentary rock formation (Erosion, cementation, weathering, compaction and deposition)?
What is weathering, erosion, deposition, compaction and cementation?
Igneous rocks that cool quickly on Earth’s surface are ____.
What is extrusive?
Which of the following properties is generally the least useful in identifying minerals?
What is color?
What determines the properties of a mineral?
What is composition and structure?
A rock that forms when magma hardens beneath Earth’s surface is called an ____.
What is an intrusive igneous rock?
What can be used to interpret past environments, matching rocks of the same age found in different places and indicate when a rock is formed.
What is a fossil?
Extrusive rocks, which cool more rapidly than intrusive rocks, are generally more ____.
What is fine grained?
The most common mineral group in Earth’s crust is the ____.
What are silicates?
A mineral has a mass of 300 g and a volume of 25 cm3. What is its density?
What is 12 g/cm3
The most abundant elements in Earth’s crust are ____.
What is oxygen and silicon?
What can cause rocks to become more compact, recrystallize or cause crystals to grow larger?
What is metamorphism?
The pressure required for metamorphism can be generated by what?
What is the weight of overlying rock?