A mineral's ______ describes how its surface looks when light reflects from it.
What is luster
100
This is caused by many things such as wind, water, ice and plant roots.
What is weathering?
100
Diamond is a ten on the Moh's scale.
What is the hardest mineral on Moh's Hardness Scale?
100
A natural solid that has its particles arranged in a crystal pattern that repeats.
What is mineral?
200
Forms when rock pieces deposited over time are squeezed and stuck together.
What is sedimentary rock?
200
When you rub a mineral against a while tile, its ____ is the color of the powder left behind.
What is streak?
200
The movement of rocks that have been broken down by weathering.
What is erosion?
200
Talc is a one on Moh's scale.
What is the softest mineral on the Moh's Hardness Scale?
200
Material made up of one or more minerals.
What is rock
300
A rock that has been changed by high heat and great pressure.
What is metamorphic rock?
300
A mineral's _____ is its ability to resist being scracthed.
What is hardness?
300
Earth's _____ is the pattern of slow changes in rocks from one kind to another.
What is rock cycle?
300
Is the hardest of the following minerals is the hardest... gypsum, talc, topaz, or calcite?
What is topaz?
300
Choose the best example of igneous rock changeing into sedimentary rock...
an eraser rubbed on paper or crushed graham crackers mixed with melted butter and pressed into a pie pan.
What is graham crackers mixed with melted butter and pressed into a pie pan?
400
You find a rock with pieces of seashells in it.
What is sedimentary?
400
Hardness, luster, and streak
What are ways to classify minerals?
400
A mineral is a solid that has repeating patterns and a rock is made of one or more minerals.
What is the way in which rock is different from minerals?
400
One of these minerals can be scratched by flourite...
quartz, apatite, orthoclase, calcite.
What is calcite?
400
Pumice has tiny holes caused from gases escaping the lava as it cools and therefore would make it lighter.
What is the reason why the same size of pumice would be lighter than the same size of obsidian?
500
Chocolate chip cookie dough that is flattened and then baked into cookies is a form of...
What is metamorphic rock?
500
This is another name for table salt.
What is Halite
500
The pressure and heat required to form metamorphic and igneous rock would destroy any fossils that might be contained in the rock. So therefore they must be sedimentary rock.
What is the only rock type you will find containing fossils?
500
One of the following minerals can scratch corundum...
gypsum, diamond, quartz, topaz
What is diamond?
500
Penny-3
Glass-6
One of these minerals can be scratched by a penny but not by glass...
quartz, gypsum, orthoclase, apatite.