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