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Mineral Properties
Rocks
Rock Cycle
Mineral Identification
Layers of Earth
100
Characteristics used to identify minerals.
What are properties?
100

These are the two categories that metamorphic rocks can be put into.

What are foliated and nonfoliated?

100

Rocks changing from one type of rock to another.

What is the Rock Cycle?

100

A mineral with a hardness of 6 that cleaves in 2 directions at 90°

What is potassium feldspar?

100
Inner Core
What is the innermost layer of Earth's interior?
200
Fracture
What is the breaking into rough edges?
200
Extrusive Igneous Rocks
What are rocks that are made from lava cooling on Earth's surface?
200

The three categories all rocks can be put into.

What are igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic?

200

A mineral that is an ore of iron and magnetic?

What is Magnetite?

200

Magma

What is melted rock?

300
Describes how light reflects from a mineral's surface
What is luster?
300
Intrusive Igneous rocks
What are rocks formed from maga cooling on the inside of Earth?
300

These types of rocks can become sediment by weathering.

What is any type of rock?

300

A mineral that is colorless with glassy luster and used in jewelry

What is Quartz?

300
The layer above the inner core.
What is the outer core?
400

Atoms are arranged in an orderly pattern.

What is atomic structure?

400

Rocks that are clastic (or fragmental).

What are sedimentary rocks?

400

A rock that was sediment, then went under pressure, then was melted down and crystalized or cooled inside a volcano is this type of rock.

What is a igneous rock?

400
A mineral that has a streak color of white-yellow and a hardness of 2.

What is sulfur?

400
Mantle
What is the layer above the outer core, and consist mainly of molten rock?
500
Mohs Scale
What is the scale used to measure hardness of a mineral?
500

Metamorphism due to contact with or proximity to an igneous intrusion

What is the contact metamorphism?

500

Magma solidification

What is igneous rock formation?

500

A mineral that contains iron and magnesium and is granular.

What is Olivine?

500
The part of Earth's layer that is thin under the oceans and thick under the continents.
What is the crust?