Minerals
This is a mineral's color in its powered form
What is streak?
This machine is used to heat material/rocks up until they melt.
What is a smelter?
This type of resources will never run out.
What is renewable?
This type of weathering breaks down rocks physically by water, wind, or gravity.
What is abrasion?
This rock is made by both heat and pressure
What is metamorphic?
This word describes when a mineral tends to break in uneven pieces
This term describes the by-product of a mining operation. (the secondary product made after extracting the minerals)
What is tailings?
This type of plate boundary can create large mountain ranges by pushing plates together
What is convergent?
This type of weathering is done by plants and animals
This type of rock is made when magma cools
What is hardness?
This is the useless/profitless material that is sometimes attached to ore.
What is gangue?
This is the most popular type of non-renewable resource in the United States
What is fossil fuels? (Oil, Coal,etc)
This term describes when rocks and sediments are dropped off somewhere new
What is deposition?
This type of igneous rock cools below the surface
What is intrusive?
A student is able to scratch a mineral with a penny, but not with their fingernail. This number represents this minerals hardness level
What is 3-4?
A bunch of rock is moved to reach an ore deposit underneath. This term describes the rock moved
What is spoil?
This type of plate boundary is most asscociated with earthquakes
What is a transform boundary?
This type of weathering occurs when water chemically reacts with a rock
What is hydrolysis?
This type of sedimentary rock is created by pieces of rock cementing together
What is clastic?
This characteristic of mineral determines its hardness level. (Ex: Graphite vs a diamond)
What is its atom structure? or Cystalline Structure
These are the four characteristics of minerals
What is naturally occurring, made from inorganic compounds, solid crystalline structure, and consistent chemical composition.
This is 5 types of renewable energy.
What is tidal, wind, solar, hydroelectric, geothermal, hydrogen
This type of weather will occur when lichen grows on the side of a rock
What is organic acid?
This type of sedimentary rock is created when dissolved minerals are solidified
What is chemical?