Vocabulary 1
Vocabulary 2
Miscellaneous 1
Miscellaneous 2
100
A rock formed when bits of matter join together.
What is sedimentary rock?
100
A rock formed when melted rock material cools and hardens.
What is igneous rock?
100
These cause weather and erosion on the Moon.
What are meteorites?
100
Name a specific Mineral.
What is many different answers?
200
A rock from space that strikes a surface.
What is a meteorite?
200
Hot, molten rock deep below Earth's surface.
What is magma?
200
What force cause fold mountains to form?
What is compression?
200
Name a Rock.
What is a wide variety of answers?
300
A mineral that is valued for being rare and beautiful.
What is a gem?
300
The rock surface that makes up the top of Earth's lithosphere.
What is the crust?
300
What type of luster does a mineral have if it is shiny?
What is metallic luster?
300
There are ways to identify a mineral. List 3
What is streak, hardness, color, luster, and cleavage?
400
A crack in the Earth's crust.
What is a fault?
400
An object that travels around a star in a path.
What is a planet?
400
The object in space has a lithosphere, does not have a hydrosphere, and is Earth's closest neighbor in space.
What is the Moon?
400
Typically weathering, erosion, and deposition occur in areas such as these.
What is coast lines, bottom of hills, or waterways?
500
A mineral containing a useful substance.
What is ore?
500
The tendency of a moving object to keep moving in a straight line.
What is inertia?
500
Farmers protect the mineral content of their soil by doing these two things.
What is adding fertilizers and rotating crops?
500
This type of coal is a metamorphic rock and took hundreds of years to form from remains of dead plant material.
What is anthracite coal?
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