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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?