Mineral Vocab
A natural, solid substance that has a definite chemical composition and physical structure.
What is a mineral?
Is the softest mineral.
What is talc?
Rocks that form from molten lava or magma.
What are igneous rocks?
These three things are responsible for creating sediments.
What are wind, water and ice?
What is metamorphism?
The powder left behind when a mineral is rubbed on an unglazed tile.
What is streak?
Minerals are made of a repeating pattern that results in a _____________ shape.
What is a crystal?
These rocks form from lava on the surface of of the Earth.
What are extrusive igneous rocks?
These are two kinds of sedimentary rocks.
What are clastic and chemical sedimentary rocks?
These are the two kinds of metamorphism?
What is contact and regional metamorphism?
The ability of a mineral to resist scratching.
What is hardness?
Minerals form deep within the Earth's ___________, _____________ caves and ________________.
What is crust, limestone and seawater.
These rocks forms from magma under the surface of the Earth.
What are intrusive igneous rocks?
These kind of rocks are formed when solids from water precipitate out (water evaporates) and forms rocks.
What are chemical sedimentary rocks?
When heat and pressure act on limestone it changes to this kind of rock.
What is marble?
The tendency of a mineral to break along flat surfaces parallel to e crystal faces.
What is cleavage?
______________ has a gold color but makes a greenish - black or grey streak.
What is pyrite or calcopyrite?
Obsidian and pumice are an example of this.
What are extrusive igneous rocks?
Limestone is an example of this kind of rock.
What are chemical sedimentary rocks?
This type of metamorphism occurs near magma intrusions.
what is contact metamorphism?
When a mineral glows under ultraviolet light.
What is fluorescence?
This mineral glows under ultraviolet light
What is fluorite?
Granite and Diorite are examples of this kind of rocks.
What are intrusive igneous rocks?
This is an example of fine grained clastic sedimentary rock.
What is shale?
This kind of metamorphism changes shale to slate.
What is regional metamorphism?