Sedi-mentary
This sedimentary rock is black, low-density, sooty, and flammable
What is Coal?
This rock is formed by extrusive lava cooling rapidly in water
What is Obsidian?
A selection of the following make up Felsic RFM’s: O, Si, Al, K, Mg, Fe
What is O, Si, Al, and K?
This metamorphic rock has colour banding due to alternation of light (felsic) and dark (mafic) minerals
What is Gneiss?
This element is most common in quartz
What is Silicon?
This sedimentary rock fizzes with HCI
What is limestone?
This name for molten rock only applies to molten material below the surface
What is Magma?
I am a large group of black mica minerals that is commonly found in Igneous and Metamorphic rocks. I also have a lustre on my cleavage faces
Who is Biotite?
This foliated, fine grained metamorphic rock, typically composed of mica and graphite will pass the ‘tink’ test
What is Slate?
This element, often associated with the atmosphere, is most common in rocks
What is Oxygen?
These are the names for the 3 types of weathering
What is Physical, Chemical, and Biological
This Igneous extrusive rock is extremely lightweight due to its vesicular properties and is also light in color
What is Pumice?
This RFM is smooth, blocky and contains clear to pink crystals
What is Orthoclase?
This medium to coarse grained mineral with a Moh’s hardness level of 3, fizzes when exposed to HCl.
What is Marble?
This name describes the outter shell of an atom
What is a Valence Shell?
Gravel is to _______ as silt is to siltstone
What is Breccia?
What is a huge mass of Igneous rock that forms and cools deep in the earth’s crust (ie: the Squamish Chief)?
What is a Batholith?
Olivine have a _____ (Higher or Lower) relative temperature of crystallisation
What is Higher?
This common place metamorphic rock has a Moh’s hardness level of 7
What is Quartzite?
Name for elements that have a charge of +/- 4
What are “Switch Hitters”?
This sedimentary rock has the smallest particle size
What is Shale?
This scientific process explains and describes the precipitation of crystals (RFM) out of molten rock
What is Bowens Reaction Series?
The name of a group of RFM's whose structure is based upon stacked layers
What is Phyllosilicates?
This minerals name is preceded by diagnostic minerals such as quartz ____, mica ____, and others
What is Schist2
Traces of this element are thought to give olivine its green colour
What is Nickel?