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?
This leads to igneous rock changing into sedimentary rock.
What is "Weathering, Erosion, and Deposition"?
When two or more elements bond together in definite proportions, they form a(n)
What is a Compound?
What is USUALLY true about minerals?
What is "They are Usually Inorganic"?
Named according to the size and types of fragments they contain.
What are Sedimentary Rocks?
Molten rock found on Earth's surface.
What is Lava?
Required for the formation of igneous rock from molten rock.
What is Cooling?
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? (2 ways)
What is Density or Streak?
Rocks are always doing this.
What is Changing?
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?
The cause of any rock changing into metamorphic rock.
What is "High Temperature and/or Pressure"?
What physical property is generally the least useful in identifying minerals?
What is Color?
This has mass and volume.
What is "All Matter"?
The three groups of rocks are classified based on ____.
What is "How They Form"?
Weathering breaks down rock into these fragments.
What is Sediment?
Areas of crust with reduced pressure allowing rock below Earth's surface to rise up.
What are Rift Zones?
The most common mineral class in Earth’s crust is the ____.
What are Silicates?
One of the most common silicate minerals on Earth.
What is Feldspar or Quartz?
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?
The pressure required for metamorphism can be generated by what?
What is the weight of overlying rock?
This is required for the formation of magma from other rock.
What is Melting?
What is Metallic Luster?
What determines the major class of a mineral?
What is "The presence or absence of Silicon"?
As the rate of cooling of igneous rocks increases, the size of the crystals that form ____.
What is Decreases?
Rocks, like minerals, are naturally occurring, solid, and always inorganic. True or False? Explain.
What is False, rocks may include organic matter; minerals are usually inorganic?
Rift zones are the result of ________ pulling apart.
What are Tectonic Plates?
Two unknown minerals are the same if they have this.
What is "The Same Streak"?
The basic building blocks of most silicate minerals.
What are Silicate Tetrahedrons.
A rock that forms when magma hardens beneath Earth’s surface is called an ____.
What is an Intrusive Igneous Rock?
Erosus, the latin word for erosion, means this.
What is "Eaten Away"?
Increases the rates of erosion leading to sedimentary rock formation.
What is Uplift?
The most abundant elements in Earth’s crust are ____.
What is oxygen and silicon?
A mineral has a mass of 100 g and a volume of 25 cm cubed. What is its density?
What is 4 g/cm3
What can cause rocks to become more compact, recrystallize or cause crystals to grow larger?
What is Metamorphism?
Weathering, erosion, deposition, _________, and _______ are the processes and factors that can change rock.
What is Temperature and Pressure?
_______ leads to basin formation. This can lead to the to formation of __________ rock after deposition occurs.
What is "Subsidence" and "Sedimentary"?