Mineral properties
What state of matter are minerals in?
What is a solid?
What is the least effective way to identify minerals?
What is color and appearance?
What is a type of Igneous?
What is Granite, diorite, obsidian, or basalt?
What are some types of sedimentary Rock?
What is sandstone, breccia, halite, rock-salt, coal, or chalk?
What are some types of metamorphic rocks?
What is Gneiss, slate, marble, quartzite?
What does inorganic mean?
What is never living?
What is Luster?
How many types of Igneous Rocks are there?
What is two?
How many types of sedimentary rocks are there?
What is three?
How many types of metamorphic rocks are there?
What is Two?
Are minerals nonrenewable or renewable?
What is nonrenewable?
What is streak?
Which types of Igneous Rock is formed when magma is cooled slowly underground? (Inside the Earth) Intrusive or Extrusive
What is Intrusive?
Which type of sedimentary rock forms when sediments are buried, compacted, and cemented together by calcite or quartz? (Clastic, chemical, organic)
What is Clastic?
Which type of metamorphic rock forms when mineral grains are arranged into planes and bands? (foliated or non-foliated)
What is foliated?
What are some examples of minerals?
What are quartz, basalt, breccia, marble, slate, etc
What mineral test examines how resistant a mineral is to scratching?
What is Hardness?
Which type of Igneous Rocks forms when lava is cooled more quickly above the ground? (Intrusive or Extrusive)
What is Extrusive?
Which type of sedimentary rock forms when water evaporated and minerals become concentrated? (Clastic, chemical, organic)
What is Chemcial?
Which 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 a mineral?
What is mineral are natural occurring, inorganic material that is the building blocks of rocks?
What mineral test examines the way a mineral breaks and cracks?
What is cleavage/fracture?
What are some characteristics of Igneous Rocks?
What are Coarse grained, crystals, fine grained or glassy?
What type of sedimentary rock forms from the remains of once living things that get compacted and buried together? (Clastic, chemical, organic)
What is Organic?
What are some characteristics of metamorphic rocks?
What is Flat, sheet like layers and large grains?