Minerals
Property of a mineral describing its color in powdered form
What is streak?
Molten rock at the Earth's surface
What is lava?
What is an igneous rock?
Sedimentary rock with large, poorly sorted, angular grains
What is a breccia?
The largest accessible source of freshwater
What is groundwater?
The scale used to determine a minerals hardness
What is Mohs scale of hardness?
Class of sedimentary rocks containing parts of once living organisms, often shelled hard parts
What is biochemical?
Rock made up of smaller pieces of other rocks
What is sedimentary?
Commonly used rock composed of the signature colors of pink, white, and black
What is granite?
In a normal fault, the hanging wall moves in this relative direction relative to the footwall
What is down?
This physical property of a mineral describes how a mineral's surface reflects light
What is luster?
This volcano produces low viscosity, runny lava, and is generally a dome shape with a gentle slope
What is a shield volcano?
Rock type that forms from high heat and pressure
What is metamorphic?
What is shale?
This mineral can be many different colors and makes up 12% of the Earth's crust
What is quartz?
A rock that exhibits a chemical reaction to acid likely contains this mineral
Compositional word describing a mineral that is dark in color, typically containing iron and magnesium
What is ferromagnesian?
Rock type exhibiting foliation
What is metamorphic?
This igneous rocks is glassy and formed by the rapid cooling of viscous lava
What is obsidian?
Kyanite is solely mined in this state of the USA
What is Virginia?
The five criteria that define a mineral
What is solid, inorganic, naturally occurring, definite chemical composition, and defined crystalline structure?
Describes sediment being stuck together to ultimately form a sedimentary rock
What is lithification?
Rock type forming only at the surface of the Earth
What is sedimentary?
The name of the rock formed at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge
What is basalt?
This occurs when physical processes affect the rocks, such as changes in temperature, or when the rock is exposed to the effects of wind, rain, and waves
What is physical weathering?