Properties of Minerals
Meaning formed from non-living things.
Inorganic
The look and feel of a rock's surface.
Texture
Small, solid pieces of material that come from living things.
Sediment
Marble and slate are important materials for ______. (Hint: What do humans use it for?)
building and sculptures.
Who was the king of the gods in Greek mythology?
Zeus
A solid with a repeating pattern of particles.
Crystal
Rock formed from the cooling of magma or lava.
The process by which running water, wind, or ice carry away bits of broken-up rock.
Erosion
The process by which atoms are rearranged to form a material with a crystal structure.
Crystallization
Which planet is called "the blue planet"?
Earth
A rounded, hollow rock lined with mineral crystals.
Geode
Sedimentary rock forms when the remains of plants and animals or other particles of rocks are _________.
Pressed together.
A series of processes that occur on Earth's surface and in the crust and mantle that slowly change rocks from one kind to another.
The rock cycle.
A narrow channel or slab of a mineral that is different from the surrounding rock.
Vein
What geometric shape has four equal sides and four right angles?
Square
The color of a mineral's powder.
Streak
Metamorphic rock forms when a rock is changed by ______ or _______.
Chemical rock forms when minerals dissolved in _______ crystallize.
a water solution
Describes the thin, flat layering found in most metamorphic rocks.
Foliated
Who is the god of war in Norse mythology?
Thor
Luster
The particles or minerals that make up other rocks.
Grains
The effect of forces upon rock.
Weathering
Suppose you have a diamond ring and are able to scratch your granite countertop with it. Remembering Moh's Hardness Scale, what does this say about the two rocks?
Diamonds are harder than granite.
How many wives did King Henry VIII have?
Six
The ability to split easily along flat surfaces.
Cleavage
The name given to the approximately twenty minerals that make up most of the rocks of earth's crust.
Rock-forming minerals.
The process by which sediment settles out of the water or wind carrying it.
Deposition
What are the three major types of sedimentary rock?
1. Clastic
2. Organic
3. Chemical
What human blood type is known as the "universal donor"?
O Negative
Describes how a mineral looks when it breaks apart in an irregular way.
Fracture
A light-colored rock with high silica content.
Granite
When is a clastic rock formed?
When rock fragments are squeezed together.
Put the following in the CORRECT order:
1. Deposition
2. Weathering and Erosion
3. Cementation
4. Compaction
1. Weathering and Erosion
2. Deposition
3. Compaction
4. Cementation
What is the elemental abbreviation for Gold?
Au
The scale that identifies minerals by how hard they are.
Moh's Hardness Scale
Igneous rock that formed from lava that erupted and cooled.
Extrusive rock
Organic rock forms when ________ are deposited in layers.
the remains of plants and animals
What is the formula for Density? (Remember, I love Density!)
D=mass/volume
What is the only planet that rotates on its side?
Uranus
A mixture in which one substance is dissolved in another.
Solution
Intrusive rock forms when magma hardens where?
Beneath the surface of the Earth.
The process in which dissolved minerals crystallize and clue particles of sediment together.
Cementation
Name the three ways igneous rocks are classified.
1. Origin
2. Texture
3. Mineral Composition
What is the official animal of Scotland?
Unicorn
Name all five characteristics of a mineral.
1. Naturally occuring
2. Solid
3. Forms by inorganic processes
4. Crystal structure
5. Definite chemical composition
Basalt
Compaction presses _____ together.
Sediments
Name the three ways that minerals can form.
1. Organic processes.
2. Crystallization from being dissolved in solutions.
3. Crystallization from magma and cooling lava.
What is the fear of spiders called?
Arachnophobia