Mineral Characteristics
Are minerals renewable or non-renewable?
What is the least effective way of identifying a mineral?
What is color and appearance?
How many types of Igneous rocks are there?
What is two?
What is are some examples of Sedimentary rocks?
What is Sandstone, Breccia, Halite, rocksalt, or coal?
How many types of Metamorphic Rocks are there?
What is Two?
There are six common ways to test minerals to identify them. What is one way to identify one?
What is color, luster, streak, cleavage/fracture, hardness, or crystal shapes?
What is the sheen of the mineral's surface? (could be glassy, metallic, or pearly)
What is luster?
Which type of Igneous rock forms when magma is cooled slowly underground (INSIDE the Earth)? (intrusive or extrusive)
What is Intrusive Igneous Rock?
How many types of Sedimentary Rocks are there?
What is three?
What does metamorphism mean?
What is to change something?
The following are common _________ of minerals?
naturally occurring, solid, inorganic, definite chemical composition, and crystal shapes
What is common characteristics of minerals?
What test leaves powdered particles of a mineral?
What is streak?
What Type of Igneous Rock forms when lava is cooled more quickly above ground? (intrusive or extrusive)
What is Extrusive Igneous Rock?
Which type of sedimentary rock is when sediments are buried, compacted, and cemented together by calcite or quartz? (Clastic, Chemical, or Organic)
What is Clastic sedimentary rock?
Which type of metamorphic rock forms when mineral grains are arranged in planes or bands from heat and pressure? (layered) (foliated or nonfoliated)
What is foliated metamorphic rock?
What are the two ways minerals form?
What is through water evaporation and cooling magma?
What test measures how resistant the mineral is scratching?
What is hardness?
What are some characteristics of Igneous Rocks?
What is Coarse-grained, large crystals and Fine-grained, glassy, small or no crystals?
Which type of sedimentary rock forms when water evaporates ad minerals become concentrated? (Clastic, Chemical, or Organic)
What is Chemical Sedimentary Rock?
What type of metamorphic rock forms when mineral grains change size or shape from heat and pressure? (foliated or non-foliated)?
What is non-foliated?
What is a good definition for minerals?
What is a naturally occurring, inorganic solid that are the building blocks of rocks?
What is the way a mineral breaks and cracks?
What is cleavage or fracture?
What are some examples of Igneous Rocks?
What is granite, diorite, obsidian, basalt?
Which type of sedimentary rock forms when from the remains of once living plants and animals that are buried, compacted, and cemented together with sediment? (Clastic, Chemical, or Organic)
What is Organic Sedmentary rock?
What are some examples of metamorphic rocks?
What is slate, phyllite, marble, quartzite?