What are minerals?
What are Rocks and the rock cycle?
What minerals and rocks do we use?
Vocabulary
100
The most abundant mineral on Earth
What is Quartz
100
What is texture?
What is the size and arrangement of mineral grains.
100
Any solid Earth material that can be mined for a profit.
What is ore
100
Minerals that break along rough, uneven surfaces have what?
What is fracture
200
Property that describes the way a mineral reflects light.
What is luster
200
Three main groupings of rocks
What is igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic
200
This ductile metal is used to treat and diagnose some rare illnesses. Also very valuable.
What is gold.
200
The wise use of a natural resource.
What is conservation
300

diamond, granite, galena, pumice- which is a mineral?

What is galena

300
Igneous rocks are divided into two sub-groups. What are they?
What is intrusive and extrusive
300
A mineral valued for its beauty is called what?
What is a gem
300
A surface mine from which large slabs of rock or large volumes of sediment are removed
What is a quarry
400

DAILY DOUBLE- What is the Mohs scale?

What is a scale that ranks the hardness of certain minerals.

400
What is the rock cycle?
What is the natural processes that change rocks.
400
DAILY DOUBLE- List 5 nonrenewable resources
What can be minerals, rocks, sediments, land, soil, oil, natural gas, coal, and uranium.
400
Resistance of a mineral to being scratched.
What is hardness
500

The characteristics of minerals

What is solid, inorganic, natural, specific composition, and definite structure

500
Rocks that existed before metamorphism occurred are called this.
What are parent rocks.
500
This rock is used for floor tiles and roof shingles.
What is slate
500
Rocks that form from existing rocks changed by high heat, high pressure, and/or very hot fluids.
What is metamorphic rocks.
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