Vocabulary
Minerals
Rock Cycle
Earth
Grab Bag
100
What do you call a person who studies the earth?
Geologist
100
What test is used to determine the hardness of a mineral?
Scratch Test
100
What kind of rock is layered?
Sedimentary Rock
100
What do you call the layer at the very center of the earth?
The inner core
100
What is the difference between a rock and a mineral?
Rock is made up of more than 1 mineral. A mineral is a mineral is a mineral.
200
What do you call the moving of soil and rocks by wind, water, or ice?
Weathering
200
What test is used to determine if calcite is present in a rock?
Acid test
200
What type of rock is formed when magma cools?
Interior Igneous
200
What do you call the outter most layer on earth?
Crust
200
Weathering helps to form what type of rock?
Sedimentary
300
What is the shaking or sliding of the earth's crust?
Earthquake
300
What test determines the mineral's color in powder form?
Streak test
300
What kind of rock is formed with lava cools?
Exterior Igneous
300
What formed the Hawaiian islands?
Volcanic eruptions
300
Josh had an igneous rock in his collection. Where did this rock most likely form?
In a volcano.
400
What do you call the study of the Earth and the materials of which it is made?
Geology
400
What does "luster" mean?
Luster is how the light reflects off the mineral. (how shiny or dull the mineral appears)
400
What type of rock is formed under intese heat and pressure deep within the earth?
Metamorphic rock
400
What occurs when large amounts of loose rock combined with soil fall suddenly down a slope?
Landslide
400
The hardness scale was named after what famous geologist?
Friedrich Mohs
500
What do you call the layer just below the earth's crust?
Mantle
500
What mineral did we test for when we preformed an acid test?
Calcite
500
What is the most common rock found on earth?
Basalt
500
When this errupts, melted rock, ashes and other materials burst out of the opening.
Volcano
500
What is the hardest AND softest mineral?
Hardest: Diamond Softest: Talc
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