*Rocks & Minerals Vocabulary Quiz

Process in which dissolved minerals crystallize and glue particles of sediment together

• cementation
• compaction
• Sedimentation
• crystallization

A defining quality of a thing

• Characteristic
• Property
• Magnetism
• Composition

The tendency of a mineral to break or split along smooth, flat surfaces

• cleavage
• Streak
• fracture
• Hardness

process that presses or squeezes sediments together

• compaction
• cementation
• Sedimentation
• rock

what something is made up

• Composition
• Characteristic
• Property
• organic

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-1

NGSS.MS-PS1-1

the microscopic arrangement of atoms inside a mineral

• Crystal Shape (Crystal Structure)
• Composition
• Magnetism
• texture

Process by which a chemical substance is given a solid crystal form.

• crystallization
• cementation
• compaction
• Hardness

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

Igneous rock that forms above Earth’s surface; often fine-grained

• extrusive igneous
• metamorphic rocks
• Sedimentary Rock
• intrusive igneous

Metamorphic rock texture in which minerals are arranged in layers or bands.

• foliated
• non-foliated
• fracture
• cleavage

The way a mineral breaks that is ragged, jagged, rough, irregular, not smooth

• fracture
• cleavage
• foliated
• non-foliated