Minerals
A chemically pure substance
What is a mineral?
color, hardness, magnetic, fluorescence, streak test, cleavage/fracture
What are the ways to test a mineral?
the two ways to describe where an igneous rock was formed
intrusive or extrusive
the movement of sediment to a different area
What is erosion?
Metamorphic rocks can be made from what other type of rock?
What is any other type of rock?
diamond
What is the hardest mineral on Mohs Hardness Scale?
how igneous rocks are made
What is cooling and hardening of lava or magma?
this is the action that "glues" or crystallizes a sedimentary rock together.
What is a cementation?
How can a buried rock become a metamorphic rock?
Heat and Pressure
the testing of a mineral that tests how a mineral will break along smooth surfaces
What is cleavage?
igneous rocks that are made outside a volcano, made from lava
What are extrusive igneous rocks?
not on Earth's surface, but deep inside the Earth
What is where metamorphic rocks are made?
a sedimentary rock can become a metamorphic rock by ____________ and ______________
What is heat and pressure?
the testing of a mineral that requires you to scrape the mineral along a piece of tile to see the color left behind
What is the streak test?
igneous rocks that are made underground from magma, while inside the volcano
What are intrusive igneous rocks?
These remains of once living organisms can be found in sedimentary rocks
What are fossils?
the way rocks change from one type to another is
What is the rock cycle?