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Rocks and Minerals Review Mrs. Sheppard December 2014.

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1 Rocks and Minerals Review Mrs. Sheppard December 2014

2 A. What type of metamorphic rock has bands or planes of mineral grains? B. With no bands or planes of mineral grains?

3 Answer: A.Foliated B.Non-foliated

4 What type of rock forms when it cools inside the Earth? Outside the Earth?

5 Answer: A.Intrusive igneous rocks B.Extrusive igneous

6 What do you call the test that is used when you rub a mineral across an unglazed tile?

7 Answer: Streak test

8 List the three types of sedimentary rock.

9 Answer: Clastic Chemical Organic

10 A. When magma cools slowly, what type of grain size does the rock have? B. When it cools quickly?

11 Answer: A.Large grain B.Small grain

12 What processes does sedimentary rock form from?

13 Answer: Compaction and Cementation

14 Does the decrease in pressure cause magma to form?

15 Answer: Yes

16 A. What is the hardest mineral on the Mohs Hardness Scale? B. What is the softest?

17 Answer: A. Diamond B. Talc

18 An increase in temperature and pressure cause what type of rock to form?

19 Answer: Metamorphic

20 The process of melting and cooling forms what type of rock?

21 Answer: Igneous

22 What forms from the process of weathering and erosion?

23 Answer: Sediments

24 Name two ways in which rocks are classified?

25 Answer: Texture Grain size

26 What is the process of making new rock from old rock called?

27 Answer: The Rock Cycle

28 What is the process of the laying down of sediments called?

29 Answer: Deposition

30 What do we call the chemical make up of a rock?

31 Answer: Its composition

32 What is the process of moving sediments from one place to another?

33 Answer: Erosion

34 What is the process in which the layers of sedimentary rocks are formed?

35 Answer: Stratification

36 What do we call a single layer of a sedimentary rock?

37 Answer: Strata

38 What are the 4 characteristics of a mineral?

39 Answer: (any order) Naturally occurring Inorganic Solid/chemical composition Crystalline structure

40 Name 4 of the 7 tests used to identify a mineral.

41 Answer: Color Streak Hardness Cleavage Fracture Luster Density


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