Minerals
Rock Cycle
Igneous Rocks
Metamorphic Rocks
Sedimentary Rocks
100
This mineral is used for building stones.
What is dolomite?
100
Melting turns any rock into this substance.
What is Magma or Lava?
100
This type of igneous rock forms underground from magma.
What is intrusive?
100
This texture of a metamorphic rock has a striped pattern that goes from light to dark to light to dark.
What is banding (or foliated?)
100
This sedimentary rock contains angular fragments.
What is Breccia?
200

This type of mineral contains the 2 most abundant elements in the Earth's crust.

What is silicate mineral?
200
This type of rock forms from exposure to intense heat and pressure.
What is metamorphic rock?
200
This texture is ONLY found in extrusive igneous rocks.
What is glassy, fine, or vesicular?
200
This type of metamorphism results from existing rocks being baked by hot magma (but do not melt).
What is contact metamorphism?
200
This sedimentary rock contains grain size that is less than 0.0004 cm.
What is Shale?
300
This property of mineral requires you to scratch a mineral sample against a ceramic tile to test for it.
What is streak?
300
This process moves sediments from one place to another.
What is erosion?
300
These 2 chemical elements are commonly found in igneous rocks that are darker in color and more dense.
What are iron (Fe) and magnesium (Mg)?
300
This mineral is found in Gneiss but not in Phyllite.
What is pyroxene?
300
This texture of sedimentary rock is due to minerals crystals precipitating out of solution (Hint: like salt from seawater)
What is crystalline?
400
Hardness of a glass plate.
What is 5.5?
400
Name all type(s) of rock that can turn into a sedimentary rock.
What are igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary? (MUST NAME ALL 3)
400
This mineral found inside Pumice gives the rock its pink or white color.
What is potassium feldspar?
400
This metamorphic rock forms from the metamorphism of Schist.
What is Phyllite?
400
This sedimentary rock is made up of a mineral with the composition of NaCl.
What is Rock Salt?
500
This type of environment allows mineral crystals to grow to a very large size.
What is hot/moist or What is intrusive?
500
This type of rock most likely forms at divergent plate boundaries underwater where new seafloor forms.
What is igneous rock?
500
This type of texture is commonly found in igneous rocks that cooled down rapidly from molten rock.
What is vesicular or glassy, or noncrystalline?
500
Regional metamorphism commonly takes place at this type of plate boundary.
What is convergent plate boundary?
500
This sedimentary rock will turn into Marble when exposed to heat and/or pressure.
What is Limestone or Dolostone?
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