Properties of Minerals
The color of a minerals powder.
What is a Streak?
Dark rock with low silica .
What is Basalt?
Igneous rock on the earths surface.
What is extrusive rock?
Rock that is formed when fragments squeeze together.
What are clastic rocks?
Heat and pressure created rocks.
What are Metamorphic rocks?
The glassy look of a piece of quartz.
What is luster?
The look and feel of a rock on the surface.
What is texture?
Igneous rock that has hardened beneath the surface.
What is intrusive rock
A rock formed by plants and animal remains.
What is organic rock?
Thin layering in most metamorphic rocks.
What is foliated?
The ranking of a minerals softness
What is Mohs hardness scale?
Grains that are easy to see.
What are coarse?
When lava cools extremely fast the mineral will be.
What is glassy?
The two main forms of organic rock.
What are coal and limestone?
When limestone is subjected to heat and pressure it creates.
What is marble?
A solid formed by repeating patterns of a minerals particles.
What is a crystal?
Light colored rock with high silica.
What is granite?
This rock forms when lava cools on the Earth's surface.
What is rhyolite?
Limestone is not only an organic rock it can also be.
What is a chemical rock
Metamorphic rocks can be classified by the grains.
What is arrangement?
Breaking a mineral apart to see if it splits along flat surfaces you will observe the.
What is Cleavage and Fracture?
The four minerals that make up granite
What is feldspar, mica , hornblende, and quartz
Igneous rocks are classified by.
What is origin, texture and mineral composition?
There are four main types of clastic rocks.
What are Shale, Sandstone, Conglomerate, and Brecia
The process that takes place deep inside the earth and on the earths surface.
What is the rock cycle?