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Minerals
I, M, or S
Rock Cycle Diagram
Name That Mineral
What do I get?
100
A qualitative description for a mineral. For example, sulfur is yellow.
What is color?
100
Found near a volcano
What is igneous?
100
The first two processes included in arrow 3.
What is weathering and erosion?
100
Has a hardness of 1 on Moh's scale.
What is talc?
100
after deposition, compaction, and cementation?
What is sedimentary rock?
200
The resistance of a mineral to being scratched.
What is hardness?
200
Gritty and feels like sandpaper
What is sedimentary?
200
the processes demonstrated by arrow 2.
What is heat and pressure?
200
Can be scratched by a copper penny and is black in color.
What is Mica?
200
after heat and pressure
What is metamorphic rock?
300
the color of a mineral's powder
What is streak?
300
Formed deep underground
What is metamorphic?
300
melting, cooling, and hardening are represented by what arrow number?
What is 1 or 5?
300
The hardest known mineral.
What is diamond?
300
after melting, cooling, and hardening
What is igneous rock?
400
How light reflects off the surface of a mineral.
What is luster?
400
Has layers that go all the way through the rock
What is sedimentary?
400
heat and pressure are represented by which two arrows?
What is 2 and 6?
400
Will scratch a steel nail or glass, yellow, and glassy luster
What is quartz?
400
after weathering.
What is sediment.
500
the quantitative measurement of mass per unit volume. (I heart it!)
What is density?
500
flattened bands of crystals
What is metamorphic?
500
the second part of the processes represented by arrow 4 (3 parts)
What is deposition, compaction, and cementation or deposited, compacted, and cemented?
500
white, will scratch glass or a steel nail, and can also be gray.
What is Feldspar?
500
after an existing rock is melted and expelled from a volcano
What is lava?