Geosphere
What is the name of the outer layer of the Earth?
Crust
What is the colour of sulphur?
Yellow
What is the name of the rocks made of sediments?
Sedimentary
Choose what do we use in jewlery: galena, diamond, halite
Diamond
This is the name of places to extract minerals from the crust of the Earth
Mines
Which layer is thicker: the continental crust or the oceanic crust?
Continental crust
What is the propertie of minerals that can be vitreous, metallic or dull?
Lustre
What are the types of magmatic or igneous rocks?
Volcanic and plutonic
What is the name of the mineral from which we obtain metals?
Ore
What is the mineral that we use to make pencils?
Graphite
What is the composition of the inner core?
Iron and nickel
What is the name of the scale to measure hardness in minerals?
Moh´s scale
Classify this rock
Metamorphic
We use this mineral to make solar pannels
Quartz
It is a place in Spain where we obtains calcopirite and the water of the river is red
Minas de Río Tinto (Huelva)
Which is the unique layer of the Earth with molten rocks?
Outer core
Define cleavage
Ability of minerals to break into clear surfaces (cubes, sheets)
Explain the formation of magmatic rock
They form when magma cools down inside or outside the Earth
We use this mineral to obtain cupper
Calcopirite
What is the name of the process that form the planet in the Solar system?
Acrecion of planetesimals
What is the name of the limits between layers in the Geosphere?
Discontinuties
Characteristics of minerals
Solid substance, inorganic, natural origin, defined chemical composition, cristalline structure
Classify conglomerate, granite, marmol
Sedimentary rock, magmatic rock, metamorphic rock
We use limestone and clay to make this
cement
It is a place in Spain where we can find the biggest geoda in the wordl
Pulpi (Almería)