| Chapter 1 | Chapter Two | Chapter Four-Section One |
|---|---|---|
|
Solid, non living, formed in nature, has crystalline structure
What FOUR characteristics do ALL minerals share?
|
A naturally occurring solid mixture of one or more minerals or organic matter.
What is a rock?
|
What are characteristics of the crust?
|
|
Color, luster, streak, cleavage and fracture, hardness, density, and special properties tests
What tests do scientists perform to identify a mineral?
|
The continual process by which new rock forms from old rock material.
What is the rock cycle?
|
|
|
Includes quartz and diamond and other minerals with a hardness greater than 3
Name two minerals that can scratch calcite.
|
Alll rock can be weather and eroded into sediment. The sediment is then compacted into sedimentary rock. There are two types of sedimentary rock. Clastic sedimentary rock is up of layers of rock fragment cemented together by a mineral. Organic sedimentary
In the rock cycle, how does a sedimentary rock form?
What are its key features? |
|
|
Igenous and sedimentary rock com go through heat and pressure to become metamorphic rock. There are also two types of metamorphic rock. Foliated metamorphic rock is rock that has visable aligned mineral grains. Non Foliated is when the rock has mineral gr
In the rock cycle, how does a metamorphic rock form? What are its key features?
|
||
|
It forms when any rock melts into lava and then cools and hardens into an igneous rock.
How does an igneous rock form?
|
||
Support Us on Ko-fi