Reference Table
Mineral with green sand grains
What is olivine?
Quartz and Olivine.
What is quartz?
Gas bubbles in the rock tell me it has this property.
What is vesicular?
This property is found when we look at how a mineral reflects light.
What is luster?
This cycle tells us that any rock can become any other kind of rock.
What is the rock cycle?
Metallic luster, cubic cleavage and hardness of 2.5
What is galena?
Muscovite and Biotite.
What is Muscovite?
If I have a light colored igneous rock, I have this composition.
What is felsic?
A porcelain plate helps me determines a mineral's this.
What is streak?
Every rock can do this, turning into sediment in the process.
What is weathering and erosion?
Both minerals that react with acid.
What is dolomite and calcite?
Potassium Feldspar and Biotite Mica.
What is Potassium Feldspar?
All intrusive rocks are made when this material solidifies.
What is magma?
This is what we use for a hardness test
What is a glass plate?
Name one of the rock formations we talked about.
Giant's Causeway
Uluru
Grand Canyon
Mato Tipila (Devil's Tower)
Strong red-brown streak
What is hematite?
Amphibole and Pyroxene.
What is Amphibole?
If my igneous rock has large crystals, I know it cooled for this amount of time.
What is a long time?
If i took a piece of quartz and tried to scratch corundum, this would happen.
What is nothing?
This is the rock that is produced when conglomerate undergoes an increase in heat and pressure.
What is metacongolmerate?
Non-metallic, softer than glass and associated with azurite.
What is malachite?
Calcium rich Plagioclase and Sodium rich Plagioclase.
What is Sodium rich?
My igneous rock has olivine and pyroxene. I know it most likely has this composition.
What is mafic?
A mineral's chemical and physical properties are based off of this.
What is the internal arrangement of atoms?
This is the process that occurs to produce sedimentary rocks such as rock salt and gypsum. Slightly different from the clastic ones.
What is the evaporation of seawater. (Precipitation)