Minerals
The sphere that minerals belong to
What is the geosphere?
The sphere that rocks belong to
What is the geosphere?
Where sedimentary rocks come from
What are compacted sediments?
Where igneous rocks originate
What is the solidification of magma?
How metamorphic rocks form
What is a solid-state transformation?
Not from living beings
What is inorganic?
These form a rock
What are minerals (and other rocks)?
Rocks formed with sediment from erosion of other rocks
What are detrital rocks?
The type of rock formed by magma cooling in the crust
What are plutonic rocks?
The type of rock which forms in parallel layers
What are foliated rocks?
Not man made
What is of natural origin?
These can be clastic, grainy, or glassy
What are textures?
Rocks formed from the precipitation of mineral salts
What are non-detrital rocks?
The type of rock formed when magma rises to the surface
What is volcanic rock?
The type of rock which has a uniform appearance
What is non-foliated rock?
Atoms arranged in a regular pattern, in a specific order
What is a crystalline structure?
How rocks are classified
What is the formation process?
Conglomerate is this type of rock
What is detrital?
Granite is an example of this rock type
What is plutonic?
Slate is this type of rock
This part of a mineral can be defined in a formula
What is a defined chemical composition?
Layers, blocks, and lava flows are examples of these
What are arrangements?
Limestone is this type of rock
What is non-detrital?
Basalt is an example of this rock type
What is volcanic?
Marble is this type of rock
What is non-foliated?