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Minerals
Igneous
Sedimentary
Metamorphic
Rock Cycle
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The repeating pattern of a mineral's particles form a solid called
What is a crystal.
100
Igneous rocks form from
What is the cooling of magma or lava.
100
Sedimentary rocks form from
What is sediment and remains pressed and cemented together.
100
Metamorphic rocks form from
What is heat and/or pressure.
100
Name the 3 main rocks in the rock cycle.
What is Igneous, Sedimentary, Metamorphic
200
This describes how light is reflected from a minerals surface.
What is luster.
200
This type if igneous rock is formed from lava erupted onto Earth's surface.
What is extrusive.
200
Small, solid pieces of material that come from rocks or living things.
What is sediment.
200
Metamorphic rocks are classified according to
What is the arrangement of the grains making up the rocks.
300
How are minerals identified?
What is by it's characteristic properties.
300
The most abundant type of intrusive igneous rock.
What is granite.
300
Sedimentary rocks are classified into what 3 groups?
What is clastic, organic and chemical rocks.
300
What is a foliated rock?
What is a rock whose grains have been flattened.
300
The changes in the rock cycle are closely related to
What is plate tectonics.
400
List the following minerals in the correct order from softest to hardest: calcite, feldspar,talc, diamond
What is talc, calcite, feldspar, diamind
400
Igneous rocks are classified by.
What is origin, texture and mineral composition.
400
the 4 major steps to forming a sedimentary rock.
What are weathering & erosion, deposition, compaction and cementation.
400
What foliated metamorphic rock forms from granite?
What is gneiss
400
Name the 3 major pathways by which rocks move through the rock cycle.
What is melting, erosion, heat and pressure
500
Name the five characteristics a needs to be labeled a mineral.
What is naturally occurring, solid, crystal structure, form by inorganic process, definite chemical composition.
500
How do coarse-grained igneous rocks form?
What is from slowly cooling magma.
500
Name the sedimentary rock that forms from the remians of swamp plants buried in water.
What is coal.
500
Quartzite forms when the quartz particles in what type of rock recrystallize?
What is sandstone.
500
How does plate movement help drive the rock cycle?
What is it helps form magma, moves rocks upward, collide to form mountains, create volcanoes