Mineral Properties And How To Test Them/ Mineral Characteristics
What is a property where you rub a mineral on a porcelain plate to see the color?
Streak
How is Obsidian formed?
Hot lava that cools quickly
How is igneous rock formed?
When hot lava solidifies.
Big crystals
TRUE OR FALSE: Foliated metamorphic have a layered, banded appearance.
TRUE
The property of shining a mineral in the light to identify it
Luster
What mineral forms with oxygen and water?
Calcium
How is sedimentary rock formed?
Once-living particles or organisms that compact and become sedimentary rock.
Do you get big or small crystals when lava cools quickly?
Small crystals
TRUE OR FALSE: Non-foliated metamorphic also have a layered, banded appearance.
FALSE
If a mineral was made from non-living things
The mineral is made from inorganic processes.
What mineral forms with compaction and cementation?
Sandstone
How is metamorphic rock formed?
From heat and pressure that turns into metamorphic rock.
What is the order of the processes for sedimentary rock?
Weathering and erosion, transportation, deposition, compaction, cementation.
When you do weathering and erosion on igneous rock what rock does it turn into?
Sedimentary rock
If the mineral's atoms are in a crystal form
It had a crystalline structure.
How does marble form?
When a pre-existing limestone gets extremely heated up and fuses to make marble.
Is obsidian igneous, sedimentary, or metamorphic?
Igneous
Extrusive
What is the upper mantle and crust called?
Lithosphere
The Mohs Scale also determines what property?
Hardness
What rock is formed by sedimentation?
Quartz
Is sandstone igneous, sedimentary, or metamorphic?
Sedimentary
Is it igneous extrusive or intrusive when formed underground with magma.
Intrusive
What are convection currents?
The convection currents drive the rock cycle.