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Vocabulary
Mineral Properties
Identify Minerals
Types of Rocks
Rock Cycle
100
What is a solid material made up of one or more minerals?
Rock
100
What are the five ways a mineral can be described or their properties?
Luster, Color, Streak, Hardness, and Cleavage.
100
What is a mineral that looks dull?
Nonmetallic mineral
100
What are the layers of the earth?
Inner core, outer core, mantle, and crust.
100
What is the process Scientist call the continuous series of changes that rocks undergo?
Rock cycle
200
What is the tendency of a mineral to split easily along flat surfaces?
Cleavage
200
What is the color of a mineral when it becomes a powder?
Streak
200
What is the property that helps you decide whether a mineral is nonmetallic or metallic?
Luster
200
What type of rock forms when melted rock from deep below Earth's surface cools and hardens?
Igneous Rock
200
What is similar about the way in which metamorphic and igneous rock change into sedimentary rock?
Metamorphic and igneous rock are both weathered into sediment.
300
What is a nonliving solid material that has a definite chemical makeup and is found in Earth's outermost layer?
Mineral
300
What property describes how shiny a mineral is?
Luster
300
Which minerals might be confused if you relied only on color to identify them?
Quartz, calcite, halite, gypsum, and talc can be white.
300
What type of rock forms when existing rocks are changed by extreme heat and pressure?
Metamorphic Rock
300
What is cementing?
Dissolved minerals fill in gaps between sediment, gluing the sediments together.
400
What is a mineral that is shiny like metal?
Metallic Mineral
400
What is the name of the scale to measure hardness?
Mohs Hardness Scale
400
Which minerals on this chart, p. 26 of the text, tend to be harder: metallic or nonmetallic minerals?
Metallic Minerals
400
What type of rock forms when sand, particles of rock, bits of soil, and remains of once-living things are pressed together and harden?
Sedimentary Rock
400
How might one type of sedimentary rock change into another type of sedimentary rock?
It may be weathered into sediments that become sedimentary rock again.
500
What is sand, particles of rock, bits of soil, and remains of once-living things?
Sediment
500
What mineral has a hardness of 8?
Topaz
500
What mineral property can be tested with a penny?
Hardness
500
Can you put the following processes in the correct order for the formation of sedimentary rock: depositing of sediments, weathering, and cementing?
Weathering, depositing of sediment, and cementing.
500
What type of rock does not require heat to form?
Sedimentary