Minerals
A mineral with the chem formula: FeS2 belongs to which mineral class?
What is the Sulfide class?
Baking equivalent of a rock
What is a cookie?
Sediment with smallest grain size (<0.004mm)
What is clay?
Magma that reaches the surface
What is lava?
3 types of plate boundaries
What are divergent, convergent, transform?
Minerals that are harvested for their economic and industrial value.
What are Ore Minerals?
Process where rock becomes new rock after intense heat + pressure
What is Metamorphosis?
Sediment with second smallest grain size (1/256mm-1/16mm)
What is silt?
Magma that cools ABOVE ground forms this type of igneous rock
What is extrusive?
Which type of plate boundary is most responsible for creating volcanic activity?
What is convergent?
2 most common elements in Earth's crust
What are Silica and Oxygen?
Term describing small fragments of Parent Rock as a result of physical weathering
Sediment with second LARGEST grain size (1/16mm - 2mm)
What is sand?
The opposite process of crystallization
What is melting?
What are the crust and uppermost mantle?
Characteristics that define a mineral
What is a naturally occurring, inorganic solid, with a crystalline structure, narrowly def chem composition, and characteristic physical properties?
North Shore Mountains composed of this rock
What is Granodiorite?
Conglomerate and Breccia are the rock names of this sediment type
What are gravels?
Metamorphic rocks typically form deep underground because of the greater amount of ____ and _______.
What are heat and pressure?
Name of the barely liquid (<3%) portion of the Mantle
Asthenosphere
Mineral forming process that involves the crystallization of dissolved ions in a water solution
What is Precipitation?
Name at least 3 minerals often found in Granodiorite
What are Quartz, Albite, Hornblende, Biotite?
A low energy depositional environment would only be able to deposit _____ grains of sediment
What is smaller/finer?
Name 1 process that can bring rocks from underground to the surface
Process that occurs in Mantle that drives the movement of tectonic plates
What is convection/convection currents?