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What is a Mineral?
Mineral ID
Rock Cycle
Igneous Rocks
Meta/ Sed Rocks
100
a mixture which is mixed evenly throughout.
What is Homogeneous mixture
100
The way a mineral reflects light is its?
What is Luster
100
The three main types of Rocks?
What is Metamorphic, sedimentary, and igneous rock
100
Magma brought to the surface of the earth is called?
What is lava
100
rocks that are changed by temperature, pressure, and hot fluids are called?
What is Metamorphic Rock
200
This is the ratio of a mineral’s weight compared to the weight of an equal volume of water
What is specific gravity
200
A mineral or a rock that contains a useful substance is referred to as?
What is an ore
200
Can never be created or destroyed
What is matter
200
Formed deep below the surface and cooled slowly
What is intrusive rock
200
We can classify metamorphic rocks by:
What is Composition and Texture
300
are the two most abundant elements in the Earth’s crust
What is Oxygen and Silica
300
Minerals with breaks along smooth, flat surfaces.
What is Cleavage
300
The three main processes in evolved in the creation of a rock include?
What is temperature, pressure, fragmentation
300
Formed relatively close to the surface of Earth, cooled quickly
What is extrusive rock
300
mineral grains flatten and line up in parallel layers or band is called?
What is Foliated texture
400
A solid with atoms arranged in orderly, repeating patterns
What is a crystal
400
scale used to compares mineral hardness
What is Mohs scale
400
First person to coin the term Rock Cycle, where?
What is James Hutton, Siccar Point in Scotland
400
Igneous rocks are classified by what two ways?
What is Where they formed and Magma type
400
what are the three ways we classify sedimentary rocks?
What is Chemical, clastic, and organic sedimentary rock