Rocks and Minerals WARM-UPS……………………………NAME:________________
1. A mineral is inorganic, which
means that it contains
no materials that were once part of
living things.
2. The repeating pattern of a
mineral’s particles forms a solid
called a(an)
crystal.
3. Although brick, steel, and glass
all come from substances found
in Earth’s crust, they are not
classified as minerals because
they are not naturally occurring.
4. Most minerals do NOT split
apart evenly. Instead, they have
a characteristic type of
fracture
5. The softest mineral on the Mohs
hardness scale is
talc
6. Igneous rock that cools very
smooth and shiny with no visible
quickly when it forms may have grain
a texture that is
7. When all the grains in a rock are coarse grained.
large and easy to see, the rock is
described as
8. Rock that forms from the
cooling of magma below the
surface or lava at the surface is
called
igneous rock
9. Where does most metamorphic
rock form?
Deep underground
10.
The most abundant
granite
intrusive rock in the continental
crust is
11.
The process by which
sediment settles out of the water
or wind carrying it is
deposition
12.
A sedimentary rock made
up of rock fragments with
rounded edges is called
conglomerate
13.
Chalk formed from
sediments made of skeletons of
microscopic living things in the
ocean must be a(an)
Organic rock
14.
The texture of a
metamorphic rock that has
grains arranged in parallel
layers is described as
foliated
15.
Erosion on a mountain
range that was pushed up as a
result of two continental plates
colliding will lead to the
formation of
Sedimentary rock
16.
During the rock cycle, a
Metamorphic rock
collision between two continental
plates could force one plate down
toward the heat of the mantle,
producing
17.
The heat that changes a
rock into metamorphic rock
comes from
The heat of the mantle
18.
A series of processes on
Earth’s surface and in the crust
and mantle that slowly changes
rocks from one kind to another
is called
The rock cycle
19.
If you broke a mineral into
tiny pieces, each piece would
Still show the same crystal structure
20.
The process in which
dissolved minerals crystallize
and glue particles of sediment
together is
cementation
21.
A mineral with a hardness
of 6 will scratch a mineral with
a hardness of ________ than 6.
less
22.
Particles of minerals called
___________ give a rock its texture.
23.
The small particles of rock sediment
or the remains of living things
that make up sedimentary rocks
are called _________________.
24.
High pressure can change
an igneous rock into a(an)
_____________________ rock.
metamorphic
25.
Each major group of rocks
follows ___________________ in the
rock cycle.
many pathways