Rocks 101 for kids

Crystals

100

What is needlelike and found in Tasmania?

Crocoite

200

I am blue, grapelike and polished for jewelry

I am Azurite

300

I am bundles of crystals once used for insulation

I am asbestos

400

I am flat, butterscotch colored and look like candy

I am Wulfenite

500

I am crystals in the shape of crosses that fell when Vesuvius erupted

I am Piroxene

Rock Types

100

I am a ball of rock that contains crystals

I am a geode

200

What are pipelike strands that form when lightning strikes soil?

 fulgurites

300

I am made from cemented sea shells

I am Shelly Limestone

400

I am volcanic rock that people carved into homes in the country of Turkey

I am Tuff

500

I am metamorphic rock that is colored by the minerals that are compressed into me

I am marble

Minerals

100

I am reddish and wire like in my elemental form

Copper

200

I am made from coke, iron and limestone

Steel

300

I am a type of iron ore that is red and powder like

Hematite

400

I am made by mixing 4 tons of bauxite

Aluminum

500

I am so heavy, lead floats on my surface

Mercury

People

100

I was the first geologist to walk on the moon in 1972

Jack Schmidt

200

I was a gem cutter who cut a Jonker diamond into 12 pieces in 1936

Lazare Kaplan

300

I was a New Yorker whose car was hit by a meteorite in 1992 and someone bought it for over 60,000$

Michelle Knapp

400

I was a geologist in the 1800s who experimented with rocks

Sir James Hall

500

I was a one armed geologist and army general who almost fell off a cliff but was rescued by my friend

General John Wesley Powell

Places

100

I was built out of rock and rice bricks over the course of 11 years by a Chinese Emperor to keep out the Mongols

the Great Wall of China

200

I was built out of limestone and sedimentary rock in a great Egyptian city and am still standing today

The Great Pyramids of Giza

300

I was built of white marble and jewels by a mourning ruler in India as a tomb for his wife.

The Taj Mahal

400

I was built out of rock in Rome Italy but am no longer used today.

The Roman Coloseum

500

I was built out of Iron, carbon and Granite sandstone in New South Wales Australia in 1932 and cars still drive across me.

Sydney Harbor Bridge