Rocks
Minerals
The Rock Cycle
Identifying, classification, and Properties
Uses
100
any rock that is formed from the cooling of magma of lava
What is a igneous rock?
100
a streak
What is it called when you scratch a mineral accross something and it leaves a color?
100
the rock cycle
What do rocks go through when they change into different rocks?
100
Color, Streak, Luster, Density, Hardness, Crystal Systems, Cleavage and Fracture
What are some ways you can identify minerals?
100
building materials and tools
What are uses for sedimentary rocks?
200
forms when particals of other rocks or other remains of plants and animals are pressed and cemented together. It forms layers that are buried below the curface `
What is a sedimentary?
200
the luster is what the surface of the mineral feels like
What is the luster of a mineral?
200
Erosion and Deposition
What step of the rock cycle is it when an igneous rock turns into a sedimentary rock?
200
Grain Sizes
Coarse-Grained and Fine-Grained are examples of ______ _______
200
Building materials, cleaning, polishing, cutting, scraping, and vegetable seeds
What are the uses for igneous rocks?
300
Forms when an existing rock is changed by heat, pressure, or chemical reactions. Most metamorphic rocks form deep underground
What is a metamorphic rock?
300
the Mohs Hardness Scale
Where do you usually find the hardness of a mineral?
300
1-Volcanic Activity 2-Erosion 3-Deposition 4-Heat and Pressure 5-Melting
What are all the steps of the rock cycle?
300
Texture is the look and feel. Size, Shape, and Pattern
What is texture? How do geologist describe texture?
300
sculpturing, flooring, roofing, outdoor walkways, chalkboards, and trim for stone buildings
What are the uses for metamorphidc rocks?
400
mountains, valleys, hills, beaches, and ocean floors
Rocks forms what 5 features of the earth?
400
Naturally occurring, Inorganic, Solid, Crystal Structure, and Defenite Chemical Composition
What are the properties of a mineral?
400
Melting
What can happen to all rock that can turn them back into an igneous rock?
400
no
Can you identify minerals by just the color?
400
yes
Are most of the kinds of rocks used for building materials?
500
Rocks are made of mixtures of minerals and other materials
What is the real definition of a rock?
500
A mineral is a natturally occurring, inorganic solid that has a crystal structure and a definite chemical conposition
What is a mineral?
500
It turns it into a metamorphic rock
What does heat and pressure do to all rocks?
500
it is for a mineral
Is crystal structure one of the properties for mineral or a rock?
500
Building materials, cleaning, polishing, cutting, scraping, vegetable, tools, sculpturing, flooring, roofing, outdoor walkways, chalkboards, trim for stone buildings
What are all the uses for all the kinds of rocks?