What is inorganic, solid, definite chemical structure, and must be naturally occuring.
What are 4 characteristics must a mineral have?
100
What is Intrusive
What is an igneous rock that cools slowly beneath earth's crust?
100
What is any rock type undergoing heat and pressure.
What is the process of becoming a metamorphic rock?
100
On the surface of the Earth.
Where do all sedimentary rocks form?
200
A bond between two atoms where electrons are shared.
What is a covalent bond?
200
What is Mica
What is it when a mineral exibits having perfect cleavage?
200
What is Extrusive
What is an igneous rock that cools quickly above earth's surface?
200
What is heat and pressure
What two things do you need to undergo metamorphasism?
200
What is on the bottom
What is the oldest layer of the sedimentary rock sandstone?
300
What is a bond between two atoms where elecrons are gained or lost.
What is an ionic bond?
300
What is Pyrite
What is a mineral with cubic crystals?
300
What is Obsidion
What is an ignous rock known as volcanic glass?
300
What is a process that affects large areas of earth's crust, poducing belts known as low, medium, and high grade, depending on pressurre on the rocks, temperature, and depth below the surface.
What is regional metamorphism?
300
What is the transformation of sediments into rock through cementation and compaction.
What is Lithification?
400
What are atoms of the same element that have different mass numbers and the same chemical properties.
What is an isotope?
400
What is the Bowmans reaction series.
What is a sequential, predictable, dual-branched pattern in which minerals crystallize from cooling magma.
400
What is fine grained.
What is the grain size of an igneous rock that rapidly?
400
What is the continuous process which rocks are changed into other rocks.
What is the rock cycle?
500
What is an atom that has lost an electron and becomes electrically charged.
What is an ion?
500
What is the ratio of the weight of a substance to the equal volume of water.
What is the definition of specific gravity?
500
What is intrusive or extrusive rock formed from the cooling and crystallization of magma.
What is the definition of igneous rock?
500
What is Shale
What rock was Slate before metamorphism?
500
What is a Breccia.
What is a sedimentary rock with course graines and angular fragments?