1. Earth Materials Review

2. What is a mineral? Which mineral family is most commonly found at earth’s surface? Describe an oxide.

3. Silver and gold belong to what mineral family? What is cleavage? Relative hardness means?

4. What is a mineral crystal? How does it form?

5. What are the three types of rocks? How are they classified?

6. What determines the texture of an igneous rock? What are the two formation styles for igneous rocks?

7. What does basaltic mean? What is a detrital sedimentary rock?

8. What does foliated mean? What is weathering and erosion? Where in the rock cycle does it occur?

9. When heat and pressure are applied, what rock forms? What is chemical weathering? Give an example.

10. During what part of the rock cycle are caves formed? Name agents of erosion. What do they do?

11. What is a flood plain? FeSO 4 is in what mineral family? Describe how you would tell apart two minerals that looked the same.

12. Be able to describe physical characteristics of each rock group. Understand the rock and water cycle.