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Minerals
Igenous
Sedimentary
Rock Cycle
Identification
100
a naturally occuring, inorganic solid, with a specific chemical composition and a definite crystalline structure
What is a mineral?
100
how rocks that form with small crystals cool.
What is extrusive?
100
peices of solid material that have been deposited on Earth's surface
What are sediments?
100
process by which one rock types is transformed into any other rock type.
What is the rock cycle?
100
the most noticeable characteristic of a rock and mineral.
What is color?
200
they are not alive and never were alive during any part of their existence
What is inorganic?
200
where rocks that form with coarse crystals cool
What is beneath Earth's Surface?
200
occurs when a mineral in a rock are dissolved or otherwise chemically changed.
What is chemical weathering?
200
how does igenous rock become sedimentary rock?
What is (teacher will accept answer)
200
the way that a mineral reflects light from its surface.
What is luster?
300
a solid in which the atoms are arranged in repeating patters.
What is a crystal?
300
process whereby some minerals melt at low temperatures while other minerals remain solid
What is partial melting?
300
methods by which physical weathering occurs.
What is wind, water, gravity, and glacial movement?
300
how does a sedimentary rock become a metamorphic rock
What is (teacher will accept answer)
300
how a mineral feels to the touch.
What is texture?
400
the group that the mineral group that magnetite belongs to (Fe3O4)
What is oxide?
400
different minerals form at different temperatures
What is fractional crystallization?
400
the physical and chemical processes that transform sediments into sedimentary rock
What is lithification?
400
what causes a sedimentary rock to become an igneous rock
What is exposure to heat to melt the sedimentary rock (turn into lava or magma)?
400
the color of a mienral when it is broken up and powdered.
What is streak?
500
what a mineral that splits relatively easily and evenly along on or more flat plates is said to have.
What is cleavage?
500
mafic rocks are dark-colored and have a silica contant that is
What is low?
500
the best-known feature of sedimentary rocks
What are fossils?
500
the rocks of Earth are always postioned somewhere on the rock cycle.....why?
What is (teacher accepts answers)
500
number 10 on the Mohs Hardness Scale.
What is diamond?