Question

Your find a red rock that leaves yellow scratches on other rocks. You can help identify this rock because it has a red streak.

Answer 1

As explained below.

Step-by-step explanation:

• The rocks can be identified by the three types of igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic types. Most of the rocks sedimentary rocks have mineral streak streams. Thus a steak test is done by scraping the base of the rock and hence finding out the amount if powdered mineral on the surface of the rocks.

• The red color can be attributed to the Aztec sandstones which has such type f structure, due to the presence of iron oxide or hematite and the exposure to other minerals may cause the rocks to rust or change their form and brown color.

• Pyrite is one of the most commonly found earth minerals everywhere on the earth in the form of a yellow stretch.