This famous diamond is notorious. It is rumored to be cursed and has been blamed for strange deaths, divorce, revolutions, mental illness, and poverty.
What is the Hope Diamond?
100
What is a light colored rock with a high silica content that makes up the majority of the continental crust?
What is granite?
100
This is small, solid pieces of material from rocks or living things.
What is sediment?
100
This metamorphic rock is soft and easy to cut in slabs due to its even grain.
What is marble?
100
This is the softest mineral on the Mohs Hardness Scale.
What is talc?
200
The following are the five qualities of a mineral. What quality is missing?
naturally occurring
definite chemical composition
inorganic
crystal structure
What is a solid?
200
This rock is frothy, felsic, and full of holes where gas has escaped.
What is pumice?
200
The name for particles that are smaller than pieces of clay.
What is silt?
200
This popular metamorphic rock is used for roofing, walkways, and chalkboards.
What is slate?
200
This is the approximate number of known minerals.
What is 4,000?
300
This mineral is a #7 on the Mohs Hardness Scale.
What is quartz?
300
This rock is dark-colored with a relatively low silica content. It makes up the majority of the oceanic crust.
What is basalt?
300
This sedimentary rock is made completely from broken pieces of shells. It looks like oatmeal.
What is coquina?
300
The crystals in granite flatten to create the foliated texture of this metamorphic rock.
What is gneiss?
300
The bituminous coal that we are using today formed this long ago during the Carboniferous period.
What is 250 million years ago?
400
There are three ways that minerals can form. They are the cooling and crystallization of magma, organic processes, and ?
What is crystallization of minerals in a solution?
400
This describes the orgin of an igneous rock that came from magma hardened beneath the surface of Earth.
What is intrusive?
400
Shale forms from tiny compressed pieces of this particle.
What is clay?
400
Metamorphic Marble forms from this sedimentary rock when subjected to heat and pressure.
What is limestone?
400
Granite is made of the minerals mica, hornblende, quartz and ?
What is feldspar?
500
What is the mineral resource in the biggest amount in the Great Lakes region?
What is copper?
500
This igneous rock has large crystals surrounded by small crystals. It often looks like jello with fruit chunks in it. What is the name of this igneous rock?
What is porphyry?
500
The White House in Washinton, D.C. is made from this sedimentary rock.
What is sandstone?
500
Three process form metamorphic rocks. They are heat, pressure, and?
What are chemical reactions?
500
How many different crystal systems are there to classify minerals?