Minerals
Which is a more reliable property of a mineral, color or streak?
What is the mineral streak?
What are the two materials igneous rocks form from?
What is lava or magma?
What's the difference between clastic and bioclastic sedimentary rocks?
What is clastic sedimentary rocks are made of fragments of rocks and sediments, and bioclastic sedimentary rocks are made of fossils or fragments of fossils?
What is the term used to describe a texture of metamorphic rock in which minerals change form without forming layers?
What is non-foliated?
What is the name of a fine to coarse, clastic, sedimentary rock?
What is sandstone?
Where and how do minerals form?
What is the Crystallization of magma in a volcano and precipitation by evaporation of water?
Which is denser, continental or oceanic igneous crust/rock?
What is oceanic crust/rock?
How do crystalline sedimentary rocks form?
What is evaporation, which leaves behind precipitated mineral deposits?
What is the term used to describe a texture of metamorphic rock in which minerals are separated into bands of different colors?
What is banding?
What crystalline sedimentary rock is composed of Halite?
What is Rock Salt?
What are the two types of mineral luster?
What are metallic and non-metallic?
What is the difference in mineral size between an intrusive and an extrusive igneous rock?
What is intrusive, which has a larger mineral size, and extrusive, which has a small mineral size?
What are the smallest and largest grain sizes of a sedimentary rock?
What are clay and boulders?
What types of rocks do metamorphic rocks form from?
What are Igneous, Sedimentary, and Metamorphic?
Which metamorphic rock is the result of limestone or dolostone undergoing metamorphism/heat & pressure?
What is marble?
What are the two most abundant minerals in Earth’s crust by mass & volume?
What are oxygen and silicon?
What are the three textures used to describe igneous rocks?
What are glassy, fine, and coarse?
Limestone and Coal are two types of sedimentary rocks. What is their main difference?
What needs to happen for a rock to turn into a metamorphic rock?
What is the heat of the Earth’s interior, and what is the pressure (weight) of the rocks above that needs to be applied to the original rock?
Which soft mineral tends to have the color yellow to amber and leaves a white-yellow streak?
What is Sulfur?
What are the five characteristics of minerals?
What are naturally occurring, inorganic, solid, physical and chemical properties, and crystalline structure?
What is the term used to describe an igneous rock that contains gas pockets that give the appearance of having holes?
What is vesicular?
What are the two main stages that lead to the formation of a clastic sedimentary rock?
What are compaction and cementation?
What are the different types of rock metamorphism?
What are regional metamorphism and contact metamorphism?
Which mineral has a hardness of 5.5–6.5, is typically black to silver in color, leaves a black streak, and is magnetic?
What is Magnetite?