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The moon is ____ miles away from Earth.
What Is 238,700 Miles?
The study of rocks and minerals.
What is Geology?
The softest element on Mohs Scale.
What is Talc.
This is molten rock after it reaches Earth’s surface.
What is Lava?
This is the only requirement for contact metamorphism.
What is Heat?
The Sun is ____ miles away from Earth.
What Is about 93,000,000 miles?
The definition of a mineral.
What is a naturally occurring inorganic solid with a fairly stable internal arrangement of atoms and a fairly stable chemical composition.
Luster describes…
The way a mineral reflects light.
Fossils are most commonly found in this type of rock.
What is sedimentary rock?
Non-foliated metamorphic rocks are typically associated with this type of metamorphism.
What is contact metamorphism?
Earth has had this many mass extinctions.
What is 5
All three rock types.
What is Igneous, Sedimentary, and Metamorpic?
(Daily Double) This property refers to the color of a mineral in powdered form.
What is Streak?
This igneous rock is glassy and lacks a crystal structure.
What is Obsidian?
This type of metamorphism produces foliated textures.
What is regional metamorphism?
(Daily Double)
This many mega continents have existed.
What Is 5
This mineral reacts by bubbling when exposed to hydrochloric acid.
What is calcite?
Sedimentary rocks form through this process involving sediments.
What is deposition, compaction, and cementation?
Chlorite is classified as a high-grade metamorphic mineral.
What is False?
[True or False] Minerals can form instantly.
True
(Daily Double) The difference between a rock and a mineral.
What is Minerals are pure substances; rocks are mixtures of minerals
This mineral is commonly used as pencil “lead.”
What is Graphite?
This distinguishes intrusive igneous rocks from extrusive ones.
What is that intrusive rocks cool slowly underground, while extrusive rocks cool quickly at the surface?
Limestone transforms into this rock after metamorphism.
What is marble?