Metamorphic Rocks Answers

Throughout the reflection, make sure that you have the copy of the student guide, PDF or Word and your data tables. Choose the terms that complete the paragraph. In this lab, you used the characteristics for classifying minerals and rocks to identify mineral and rock samples. To identify the relative hardness of minerals, you conducted a test. To determine the color of the powder of a mineral, you conducted a test. You also observed properties of minerals and rocks to identify them.

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Which property of minerals is the least reliable for identifying minerals?

What does Gina’s group need to do to correct the information in the table?

What conclusion can you make about the hardness of the mineral?

Which list of minerals is grouped based on color?

Consider this group of rocks: granite, marble, and gneiss.What property was used to group these rocks?

What kind of rock is shown in the picture? How do you know what type of rock it is?

What kind of rock is this? Where would this rock most likely be formed? To which group of rocks would this rock belong?

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How did the lab activities help you answer the lesson question, "How are minerals and rocks classified?” What did you learn from conducting this lab?

Which ideas did you include in your answer? Check all that apply.