Minerals
This property of minerals is tested using a scale of resistance.
What is hardness?
Rock that is made of cooled magma.
What is igneous rock.
A rock type is formed through heat and pressure.
What is metamorphic?
This rock type is made the solidification of magma or lava.
What is igneous rock?
Rocks require this energy to become magma.
What is heat from deep within earth?
This property determines whether minerals are metallic or nonmetallic.
What is luster.
This rock type shows ribbons-like layers and sometimes crystals.
What is metamorphic?
Molten rock is broken into 2 categories. Extra point to determine how.
What is magma (molten rock within the crust) and lava (molten rock on the earth’s crust).
This rock type is formed through compaction of sediments that have been collected.
What is sedimentary rock?
The source of earth’s internal heat comes from this layer.
What is the (earth’s) core?
This can be said of a mineral’s composition.
What is chemically pure?
This rock type is made of small, or large, particles of other rocks.
What is sedimentary rock?
This process allows for the collection of sediment, once moved by erosion.
What is deposition?
This process of the rock cycle happens when metamorphic rock is exposed to a more extreme heat.
What is melting?
This form of energy is greatly due to the weight of all the materials on top of a rock’s formation.
What is pressure?
These properties describe how minerals break. Extra point to describe how.
What are cleavage (planar or sheets) and fracture (irregular or round).
Which rock type is the only to have had fossils found inside?
What is sedimentary?
This process of the rock cycle happens when rock is broken down by the elements.
What is weathering?
This process in the rock cycle happens after weathering, but before deposition. Extra point for the definition of the process.
What is erosion (the movement of sediment)?
This step is required for rocks to experience the earth’s heat and pressure.
What is being buried?
Each mineral is formed with this type of structure.
What is crystalline?
Igneous rocks are broken into two categories.
What are intrusive and extrusive?
This rock type can be made into sediment.
What is ANY rock type?
This rock type can be made into metamorphic rock.
What is ANY rock type?
This energy source plays a great role in the cementation of sedimentary rock.
What is the sun?