Identify Minerals
Vocabulary
Rock Properties
Experiments
Sneak Peak
100
This is the fastest and easiest way to start identifying a mineral. Think of using your sense of sight.
What is its color?
100
Descriptions or characteristics of a rock or mineral.
What are properties?
100
This is how big or small a rock is.
What is its size?
100
This is what we broke apart, using our hands and toothpicks.
What is a mock rock?
100
These are the four cardinal directions.
What are north, south, east, and west?
200
This can be identified by scratching the mineral with different items.
What is a mineral's hardness?
200
An imprint or remains of a living thing within a rock.
What is a fossil?
200
This is what the rock's form looks like.
What is its shape?
200
This is Mrs. Cadena's cousin who came to visit.
Who is Geologist Gina?
200
This is the state you live in.
What is Indiana?
300
This is a mark that a mineral leaves behind when you rub it on a flat surface.
What is streak?
300
A solid substance made up of 1, 2, 3, or more minerals.
What is a rock?
300
This is the tone or hue of the rock.
What is its color?
300
This is what we discovered rocks are made of.
What are minerals? Or, salt, sand, gravel, seashells, and flour.
300
This is our state's capital city.
What is Indianapolis?
400
This is how shiny a mineral is.
What is luster?
400
A solid substance that can make up a rock. For example, gravel or sand.
What is a mineral?
400
This is how smooth or bumpy a rock is.
What is a rock's texture?
400
These are the three items we used to scratch our rocks in the hardness test.
What are fingernails, paper clips, and pennies?
400
This is the country where we live.
What is The United States of America?
500
This is the hardest mineral that we tested with our fingernails, paper clips, and pennies.
What is granite?
500
These can be found all over the world in the ground.
What are Earth materials?
500
This is how soft a rock is.
What is its hardness?
500
These are the steps we took to figure out what was in our mock rocks.
What are break apart, add water, let set, pour out water, let evaporate, and observe?
500
These are the seven continents.
What are North America, South America, Asia, Europe, Antarctica, Australia, and Africa?
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