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Minerals
Mineral Properties
Sedimentary
Igneous
Metamorphic
100
The hardest mineral.
What is diamond.
100
A mineral's ability to reflect light.
What is luster?
100
Almost all of these are found in sedimentary rocks.
What are fossils.
100
How igneous rocks are formed.
What is cooling of magma or laval.
100
The two processes required to make metamorphic rocks.
What are heat and pressure.
200
Softest mineral.
What is talc.
200
The color of a mineral's powder.
What is streak?
200
Sedimentary rocks are formed in these.
What are layers.
200
The 2 kinds of igneous rocks.
What are intrusive and extrusive.
200
Rocks with grains arranged in parrallel layers or bands.
What foliated.
300
Not formed from living things.
What is inorganic.
300
Mineral's ability to split along flat surface.
What is cleavage?
300
Kind of sedimentary rock that forms when rock fragments are squeezed together.
What is clastic.
300
Most abundant extrusive rock.
What is basalt.
300
The igneous rock granite becomes this metamorphic rock.
What is gneiss.
400
Number of minerals that make up most rocks.
What is 20.
400
The test to describe the hardness of minerals.
What is Mohs hardness scale.
400
An organic sedimentary rock formed from the remains of swamp plants.
What is coal.
400
Most abundant intrusive rock.
What is granite.
400
The sedimentary rock shale becomes this metamorphic rock.
What is slate.
500
A definite shape and volume.
What is a solid.
500
mass divided by volume
What is density.
500
The 4 step process that creates sedimentary rocks.
What is erosion, deposition, compation, and cementation.
500
Difference between the texture of intrusive and extrusive rocks.
What is intrusive are coarse-grained with large crystals and extrusive are fine-grained with small crystals.
500
The literal meaning of metamorphic.
What is "change form".