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TermsRocks

Type of rock formed from

magma

What is an Igneous Rock?

Type of rock formed from small particles settling to the bottom of water and

cementing together

What is Sedimentary Rock?

A rock formed from pre-existing solid rocks

by heat, pressure, or chemical changes

What is Metamorphic

Rock?

Most common rock found on

Earth

What is basalt?

Composed of different kinds of

minerals.

What is a rock?

The scratch test determines this mineral

property

What is hardness?

This can be a different color than the color of

the mineral you actually see

What is Streak Color?

Of the following, the one that is the mineral:

Granite Basalt Quartz Slate

What is Quartz?

This term describes the shiny reflection

of light by a mineral

What is Luster?

A chemical element or compound found

on earth

What is a mineral?

Scientists who study rocks and minerals to help us

learn about the formation of the earth

What is a Geologist?

An iron nail, a penny, and a fingernail can be

used to find this property of a mineral

What is Hardness?

Minerals such as magnetite and hematite which show

magnetic properties

What are Magnetic Minerals?

Scale used by geologists to classify a given

mineral’s hardness

What is the Mohs Scale?

Unglazed porcelain material that is used to

determine the streak color of a mineral by rubbing a mineral over its surface

What is a Streak Plate?

•Rounded-appearing mineral and rock particles that are cemented together •Often in layers

What is Sedimentary rock?

•With or without observable crystals •Not in layers •With or without air holes•Could be glass-like

What is Igneous Rock?

•Crystals/minerals lined up (aligned)•Often in layers, sheet-like

What is Metamorphic

rock?

Composed of the minerals: Quartz, Mica, and

Feldspar

What is Granite?

These formations have a regular geometric shape

and are often found inside a geode

What are Crystals?

Our sample of Quartz was shiny. It had this

property.

What is Luster?

Color streak we observed from a

white quartz?

What is white?

Of Gypsum and Quartz, this one is

the hardest

What is Quartz?

Pyrite, (fool’s gold) gave us this color in

the Streak Color test

What is gray or black?

Gold will give this color on the Streak

Color test

What is yellow?

Make your wager

A mineral with this hardness rating on the Mohs scale

will give a successful Streak Color Test

What is 7 or below?