3 Types of Rocks
Minerals
Properties
Vocabulary
Renewable and Nonrenewable Resources
100
Which rocks are formed from heat and pressure?
Metamorphic
100
These are the building blocks of rocks.
Minerals
100
Johnny sorted his rocks into a group of gray rocks, black rocks and white rocks. Which property did he look at?
Color
100
Scientists use _____________ to classify rocks.
Properties
100

Name the three types of Fossil Fuels.

What is coal, oil, and natural gas?
200
Which rock forms under water?
Sedimentary
200

Which is mineral is the softest?

Talc

200

What does it mean if a rock is fractured?

That it broke apart in lots of pieces. 

200

Naturally occurring resources which get replaced in a short period of time are called __________.

Renewable Resources

200

What Florida resource is used when creating buildings?

What is limestone?

300
Which rocks form in layers?
Sedimentary
300

Which mineral is the hardest?

Diamond

300
The way a rock reflects light is called ___________.
Luster
300
This rock's name means "from fire".
Igneous
300
Which is a nonrenewable resource found in Florida?

wind, sunlight, water, or phosphate

What is phosphate?

400
Which rock is formed when magma or lava cools and hardens?
Igneous
400
Tell one property used to classify minerals.
Color, streak, texture, hardness, luster
400
Scratching a rock with your fingernail can show the rock's ___________.
Hardness
400
The color of a mineral as a powder is called its ________?
Streak
400

What is silicon used for?

What is making microchips?

500
Which rock is formed from fossils or plant and animal remains?
Sedimentary
500
True/False: Minerals are not found in rocks.
False!
500
List the five properties of rocks that we have learned in class.
Color, texture, luster, hardness, streak
500
This is the scale we use to determine the hardness of a rock.
Moh's Hardness Scale
500

What is the name of the energy that is created from the sun?

What is solar power?

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