Mineral Proprieties
Types of Rocks
The Rock Cycle
Mineral and Rock Identification
Processes of Change
100
Which mineral property is the least reliable for identification?
Color
100
Which type of rock forms from the cooling of magma or lava?
Igneous
100
What is the rock cycle?
The continuous process of rock formation and transformation
100
It takes one or more of me to make up rocks.
Minerals
100
I am the process of breaking down of rocks on Earth's surface.
Weathering
200
What is the color of a mineral in its powdered form called?
Streak
200
What type of rock forms from the compaction and cementation of sediments?
Sedimentary
200
What process breaks down rocks on Earth’s surface?
Weathering
200
A penny has a hardness of 3. Which mineral from the table has a hardness greater than a copper penny?
Fluorite
200
Which process involves the transportation of sediment?
Erosion
300
What test would you use to determine a mineral's hardness?
Mohs hardness test
300
What type of rock is created by heat and pressure?
Metamorphic
300
What happens to rocks during erosion?
They are broken down and carried away
300
I am an orderly pattern of atoms arranged in repeating units.
Crystalline Structure
300
What happens to a rock that is melted and then cooled?
Igneous Rocks
400
Which mineral is the hardest on the Mohs hardness scale?
Diamond
400
What is the difference between intrusive and extrusive igneous rocks?
Intrusive forms underground, extrusive forms on the surface
400
What type of rock is formed when magma cools?
Igneous
400
From this list alone, which mineral takes up most of Earth's Surface?
Apatite
Quartz
Fluorite
Amethyst
Quartz
400
Which process turns sediment into sedimentary rock?
Compaction and cementation
500
What does the luster of a mineral describe?
How a mineral reflects light
500
In what type of rock can fossils be found?
Sedimentary
500
Which process describes the compaction and cementation of sediments?
Lithification
500
I am magma that has reached Earth's surface.
Lava
500
What process turns igneous rock into sedimentary rock? 
Weathering, erosion, deposition, and lithification