Chapter 26.1 vocab

Question 1

The naturally occurring inorganic solid with a crystalline form.

Answer 1

Mineral

Question 2

The color of a mineral in powdered form.

Answer 2

Streak

Question 3

when a mineral breaks along preferred planes of weakness creating sets of smooth parallel sides.

Answer 3

Cleavage

Question 4

Minerals that break with irregular surfaces.

Answer 4

Fracture

Question 5

The physical property that measures a minerals resistance to scratching.

Answer 5

Hardness

Question 6

Molten rock material inside Earth.

Answer 6

Magma

Question 7

A mineral is _________,__________, and _______.

Answer 7

A naturally occurring, inorganic solid, has a crystalline form.

Question 8

What are the two most abundant elements that make up Earth’s crust?

Answer 8

Oxygen and Silicon

Question 9

What does inorganic mean?

Answer 9

Materials that are non living

Question 10

What does the arrangement of an atom and the bonds between them reflect about a mineral?

Answer 10

How it breaks, how hard it is, and its crystal shape

Question 11

What are all of the ways to identify minerals?

Answer 11

Luster, streak, hardness, atomic arrangement, cleavage, fracture, Crystal shape.

Question 12

What are the two types of luster?

Answer 12

Metallic and nonmetallic

Question 13

How does metallic luster reflect light?

Answer 13

Reflects light easy like chrome on a car

Question 14

How does nonmetallic luster reflect light?

Answer 14

Not as easy, more like glass or appears earthy or waxy

Question 15

How do you perform a streak test?

Answer 15

By rubbing the mineral on an unglazed, white porcelain tile

Question 16

What are the two types of breakage that can happen to minerals?

Answer 16

Cleavage and fracture

Question 17

What is the name of the scale to measure the hardness of a mineral?

Answer 17

Mohs scale of hardness

Question 18

What is the number range on Mohs scale of hardness

Answer 18

1 through 10

Question 19

How many diffrent crystal shape systems are there?

Answer 19

There are six diffrent shapes

Question 20

Minerals grow from the _________.

Answer 20

A mineral grows from the inside and grow out

Question 21

What are the 3 ways minerals can form?

Answer 21

Hot water, Molten rock, Evaperation.

Question 22

what are the two mineral groups?

Answer 22

Silicates and Nonsilicates

Question 23

What mineral group is the most abundant in Earth’s crust?

Answer 23

Silicates

Question 24

What elements are Silicates made up of?

Answer 24

Oxegen and sillicon

Question 25

Nonsilicates do not contain what element?

Answer 25

Silicon

Question 26

What mineral is used to make glass?

Answer 26

Quartz

Question 27

What is the definition of rock?

Answer 27

A naturally formed mixture containing minerals, rock fragments, and volcanic glass

Question 28

How are rocks identified?

Answer 28

compisition and texture

Question 29

What does the texture of a rock describe about a rock?

Answer 29

Size, shape, and the arangment of the rocks components

Question 30

Where do intrusive igneous rocks form?

Answer 30

Within the earths crust

Question 31

What type of molten rock does intrusive igneous rocks form from?

Answer 31

Magma

Question 32

What is the name of the series that illustrates simultaneous crystallization of silicate minerals?

Answer 32

Bowen's reaction series

Question 33

What are the 3 types of magma?

Answer 33

mafic, intermediate, felsic

Question 34

Which magma type has a low silica content?

Answer 34

mafic

Question 35

Which magma type has a high silica content?

Answer 35

Felsic

Question 36

Which type of crust has an abundant amount of quartz?

Answer 36

Continental crust

Question 37

Which type of crust has little to no quartz?

Answer 37

Oceanic crust or deep continental

Question 38

Which type of igneous rock has a coarse grained texture?

Answer 38

Intrusive igneous rock

Question 39

Which type of igneous rock has a fine grained texture?

Answer 39

extrusive igneous rock

Question 40

Do fine grained rocks cool slowly or quickly?

Answer 40

Quickly

Question 41

What are the two specific texture types for extusive igneous rocks?

Answer 41

vesicular, and porphyritic

Question 42

which texture is the type with holes left behind because of rapid cooling?

Answer 42

Vesicular

Question 43

Which texture is the type with two different crystal sizes because of different cooling rates?

Answer 43

Porphyritic

Question 44

What type of rock has a vesicular texture?

Answer 44

pumice