Minerals and Rocks

a naturally occurring, non-living solid that has a specific chemical make-up and a repeating structure.

• rock

• mineral

• stone

• mountain

Minerals are inorganic which means that

• they were once parts of living things.
• renewable
• they were never part of anything living.
• they are nonrenewable

The hardest mineral is the ______________.

• Diamond
• Corundum
• Topaz
• Calcite

Minerals are the building blocks of _____________.

• elements
• atoms
• fossils
• rocks

What is the word used to describe an igneous rock were magma pushes into surrounding rock below the Earth’s surface?

• Intrusive

• Extrusive

• Felsic

• Mafic

What is the word used to describe an igneous rock were magma erupts onto the Earth’s surface (lava),  cools quickly with very small or no crystals formed?

• Intrusive

• Extrusive

• Felsic

• Mafic

The LAYERS of sedimentary rock are called _________?

• strata

• sediment

• rock

• metamorphic

Sedimentary rocks made of fragments of rock cemented together with calcite or quartz

• Clastic

• Chemical sedimentary

• Organic sedimentary

Sedimentary rocks made when minerals crystallize out of solution to become rock

• Clastic

• Chemical sedimentary

• Organic sedimentary

Type of metamorphic rock where mineral grains are not arranged in plains or bands

• Non-foliated

• foliated