This mineral property describes the tendency of a mineral to break into irregular pieces?
What is FRACTURE?
100
This process describes how liquid magma becomes an igneous rock.
What is COOLING?
100
Give 3 types of materials that make up sedimentary rocks.
What is:
1) smaller pieces of rock
2) broken down shells or fossils
3) pieces of plant life
4) dissolved minerals
100
Metamorphic rocks are formed when sedimentary and igneous rocks are exposed to what kinds of elements?
What is HEAT & PRESSURE?
100
This process describes how igneous rocks turn into sediment.
What is WEATHERING & EROSION?
200
The mineral Hematite leaves a reddish-brown powder behind when it is scratched along a surface. Identify the property being described.
What is STREAK.
200
This type of igneous rock cools slowly deep in Earth's surface and has well developed, large crystals.
What is AN INTRUSIVE IGNEOUS ROCK?
200
What processes take sediments and form them into sedimentary rocks?
What is CEMENTATION & COMPACTION?
200
This property of metamorphic rocks is an arrangement of minerals in flat or wavy parallel bands caused by rocks exposed to uneven amounts of pressure.
What is FOLIATION?
200
This process describes how sediment turns into sedimentary rocks.
What is CEMENTATION & COMPACTION?
300
A mineral looks it is made of metal when light reflects from its surface. Identify the property that is being described.
What is LUSTER.
300
From the "Identification of Igneous Rocks", which is the most likely identity that is mixed grained, dark in color and is made up of low-silica lava?
What is BASALT?
300
According to "Identification of Sedimentary Rocks" which rock type is most likely to be very hard, have a coarse grain size, and be white to brown in color?
What is SANDSTONE?
300
According to "Identification of Metamorphic Rocks", which rock type is most likely to be nonfoliated, have a coarse texture, be light in color, and fizz with the acid test?
What is MARBLE?
300
This process describes how sedimentary rocks and igneous rocks form into metamorphic rocks.
What is HEAT AND PRESSURE?
400
This special property causes a mineral to glow under U.V. light.
What is FLORESCENCE.
400
According to "Identification of Igneous Rocks" which rock type is most likely to have a coarse texture, be light in color, and have large grains of feldspar and quartz?
What is GRANITE?
400
According to "Identification of Sedimentary Rocks", which rock type is most likely to be soft, have fine grain size, and made up of calcite?
What is LIMESTONE?
400
According to "Identification of Metamorphic Rocks", which rock type is most likely have a foliated texture, have a coarse grain size, be a mixture of light and dark colors, and have large crystals?
What is SCHIST?
400
This process describes how sedimentary rocks and metamorphic rocks turn into igneous rocks.
What is MELTING?
500
List the 4 major requirements for an object to be classified as a mineral.
What is
1) it's solid
2) it has a crystalline structure
3) it is inorganic
4) it's formed in nature
500
According to "Identification of Igneous Rocks" which rock type is most likely to have fine grain size, be light in color and have many small bubbles?
What is PUMICE?
500
According to "Identification of Sedimentary Rocks" which rock type is most likely to be very soft, have a coarse grain size, and be white, tan, or pink in color?
What is ROCK GYPSUM?
500
According to "Identification of Metamorphic Rocks", which rock type is most likely to show foliation, have a fine grain size, and a dark color, and being fairly soft?
What is SLATE?
500
This process describes how metamorphic rocks turn into sediment.