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Review worksheet- Earth Materials
1.
What is a mineral? _________________________________________________________________
2. How can minerals be identified? ________________________________________________________
3. Give 4 examples of common minerals. ____________ ____________ ____________ ____________
4.
What is a rock? ___________________________________________________________________
5. Tell how sedimentary rocks form? ______________________________________________________
6. Give 4 examples of sedimentary rocks and for each, tell whether it is clastic, organic, or chemical______________________ __________________ __________________ ____________________
7. Tell how metamorphic rocks form- ______________________________________________________
8. For each of the following meta rocks, tell which rock they came from:
Slate ______________
Marble _____________ Quartzite______________ Gneiss ______________
9. Tell how igneous rocks form- __________________________________________________________
10. Explain the terms Mafic and Felsic- _____________________________________________________
11. Compare and contrast Intrusive and Extrusive. Give examples of each.
Use the chart in your sol prep folders to answer the following questions.
12. A fined grained rock that is light in color- _______________
13. A intrusive rock that is mafic _____________
14. A dark glassy rock ________________
15. Name the minerals in granite ________________________________________
16. Name an intrusive rock mainly made of pyroxene and olivine _________________
17. Name a fine grained igneous rock made mostly of plagioclase feldspar and hornblende that contains no
quartz or pyroxene __________________
18. A fine grained intermediate rock __________________
19. What do rhyolite and granite have in common ___________________
20. What do gabbro and basalt have in common __________________
21. What do basalt and rhyolite have in common ___________________
22. What do granite and gabbro have in common ___________________
23. Complete the chart about sedimentary rocks- List characteristics and specific rock names for each type.
Clastic
Chemical
Organic
24. Comlpete the Venn Diagram about foliated and nonfoliated metamorphic rocks.
Use the reference tables on page 7 to complete the following questions.
25. What is the grain size for Breccia?
26. What is the grain size for shale?
27. What is the texture of Sandstone?
28. What is the texture of Slate?
29. What is the texture of Quartzite?
30. What is the type of metamorphism that forms anthracite coal?
31. What is the composition of Limestone?
32. What is the grain size of Gneiss?