Rocks, Minerals, and Rock Cycle

Minerals

100

This page of the reference tables contains your mineral identification chart.

pg. 16

200

What is the special characteristic of magnetite?

It has magnetic properties.

300

This mineral is used in the making of electronics.

Quartz

400

This mineral has a hardness of 6.5 and is commonly green to gray or brown, in color.

Olivine

500

This mineral does not show cleavage, and has a reddish-brown streak.

Hematite

Igneous

100

This igneous rock is felsic, however it is dark in color. It usually appears black.

Obsidian

200

This page of your reference table contains your Igneous rock chart.

pg. 6

300

Magma forms this type of Igneous rock, with large crystals.

Intrusive

400

This mafic igneous rock is composed entirely of olivine.

Dunite

500

This igneous rock is vesicular, glassy, and darker in color.

Scoria

Sedimentary

100

Small pieces of rock are compacted and cemented to form this type of sedimentary rock.

Clastic

200

This page of your reference table contains your sedimentary rock chart.

pg. 7

300

This sedimentary rock is composed of cemented shell fragments.

Limestone

400

This clastic sedimentary rock is composed of cemented pebbles and cobbles that have an angular (not rounded) shape.

Breccia

500

Dolomite is a crystal formed from this process.

Evaporation

OR

Precipitation

Metamorphic

100

This page of your reference table contains your metamorphic rock chart.

pg. 7

200

This type of metamorphism only requires heat, not necessarily pressure.

Contact metamorphism

300

This metamorphic rock is formed from metamorphism if limestone or dolostone.

Marble

400

This texture, seen in Slate, Phyllite, and Gneiss, means that these metamorphic rocks show layers.

Foliation

500

Gneiss is formed from the metamorphism of this igneous rock.

Granite

Rock Cycle

100

This process describes the change from lava/magma to igneous rock.

Solidification

OR

Crystallization

200

This page of your reference table contains your rock cycle chart.

pg. 6

300

The process by which sedimentary rocks are formed from sediments is this three word phrase.

Compaction and cementation.

400

This type of weathering that could turn sandstone into sand includes wind weathering, frost action, and root action.

Physical weathering

500

Copper that experiences chemical weathering due to oxygen exposure, will become this material.

Copper oxide.