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Rock Identification
Rock Uses
Rock Cycle
Minerals
Rock Types
100
What rock is clastic and very fine grained?
What is Siltstone
100
Which mineral is used to melt ice?
What is Halite
100
What type of rock is made from the deposition and burial then compaction and cementation of sediments?
What is a sedimentary rock?
100
What is the composition of Galena?
What is lead and sulfur or PbS?
100
What type of rocks can be vesicular (gas pockets)?
What is Igneous Rocks
200
Which rock is intrusive and is composed of Olivine and Pyroxene?
What is Peri-dotite
200
What mineral is used in roofing?
What is muscovite mica?
200
How is magma formed?
What is melting?
200
What type of mineral can have either a metallic or nonmetallic luster?
What is Hematite?
200
What types of rocks are extrusive, glassy, and non-vesicular?
What is Obsidian and Basaltic glass
300
Which rock is non foliated, fine, and composed of carbon?
What is Anthracite Coal
300
What mineral is used in furnace bricks?
What is Olivine?
300
What is created when uplift occurs?
What are Sediments?
300
What is the softest metallic mineral?
What is Graphite?
300
What type of rock is composed of 100% Olivine?
What is Dunite?
400
Which rock is darker in color, magic and composed of just olivine?
What is Dunite
400
If granite is made up of Quartz and Feldspar, Why do we use it for counter tops?
What is Quartz and Feldspar have a higher hardness, meaning it can not be scratched.
400
How does an igneous rock turn into a metamorphic rock?
What is adding heat and/or pressure and metamorphism?
400
What two minerals cleave in 2 directions at 90ยบ?
What is potassium feldspar and pyroxene?
400
What type of rock is clastic or fragmental?
What is inorganic land derived sedimentary rocks or sedimentary rocks?
500
Using a separate piece of paper, identify which rock is fine and is composed of 50% Potassium Feldspar? (two answers are acceptable)
What is Vesicular Rhyolite and/or Rhyolite
500
What are the minerals in limestone used for?
What is cement and/or lime?
500
Explain the process of magma becoming a metamorphic rock.
What is solidification then addition of heat and/or pressure?
500
What is the official New York state gem?
What is garnet?
500
What type of rock contains compacted plant remains?
What is Bituminous coal?