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Minerals
Types of Rocks
Rocks and the Rock Cycle
Metamophic Rocks
Misc
100
Number of common minerals.
What is 30?
100
Group of minerals bound together.
What is a rock?
100
Heat, pressure, and moisture
What causes rocks to go through metamorphism?
100
Forms slate after metamorphism.
What is Shale?
100
Anything with mass and volume.
What is matter?
200
Approximate number of minerals known.
What is 4000?
200
Type of igneous rock that forms underground.
What is intrusive.
200
Buried and compressed ash
What is tuff?
200
Forms quartzite after metamorphism.
What is sandstone?
200
Found in the nucleus of an atom.
What are protons and neutrons?
300
Two elements that make up the majority of the crust.
What is oxygen and silicon?
300
Rock salt is a type of this sedimentary rock.
What is chemical sedimentary rock?
300
Magma that is hotter, thinner, and more fluid.
What is Mafic?
300
Metamorphosed limestone forms this.
What is Marble?
300
The number of protons in Calcium if the atomic number is 20.
What is 20?
400
Least useful property used to identify a mineral.
What is color?
400
Type of sedimentary rock that would contain fossils.
What is an organic sedimentary rock?
400
Magma that forms light colored rocks.
What is felsic magma
400
Parent rock of Schist.
What is slate?
400
Atom that has gained or lost electrons.
What is an ion?
500
Pearly, Greasy, oily, and vitreaous.
What are examples of luster?
500
Type of metamorphism that occurs along faults.
What is deformational metamorphisms?
500
Single most characteristic feature of sedimentary rocks.
What is stratification?
500
Parent rock of Gneiss.
What is Granite?
500
If the mass in air is 14 g and the mass in water is 12 g, the specific gravity will be this.
What is 7.0 SpG?