6th Grade Chapter 3 Test Rocks and Minerals

A scale used to rank the hardness of minerals

• Streak

• MOHS hardness scale

• Luster

A naturally occurring solid that can form by inorganic processes and that has a crystal structure and definite chemical composition

• Mineral

• Sediment

• Metamorphic rock

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

Rock that forms from another rock as a result of heat of pressure (or both heat and pressure)

• Sedimentary

• Igneous

• Metamorphic

Rock that forms from the cooling of magma and lava

• Igneous

• Metamorphic

• Sedimentary

The color of a mineral's powder

• Luster

• Streak

• color

Small, solid pieces of materials that come from rocks or living things.

• Organic

• Mineral

• Sediments

A rock that forms from many small fragments of other rocks is a(n)

• Igneous Rock

• Sedimentary rock

• Metamorphic Rock

• Extrusive Rock

You find a deposit of organic limestone. In what type of setting did it probably form?

• a volcano

• the ocean

• a swamp

• sand dunes

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

What kind of igneous rock usually contains large crystals?

• organic

• clastic

• intrusive

• extrusive

A metamorphic rock in which the grains line up in layers is called a

• Foliated Rock

• Clastic Rock

• Nonorganic Rock

• Chemical Rock