Minerals
Rocks
Vocabulary
The Water Cycle
What Does that Have to do with Science?
100
The way the surface of a mineral reflects light.
What is luster
100
Rocks that form from molten rock
What are igneous rocks?
100
A natural land feature on Earth's surface
What is a landform?
100
The fraction of the Earth that is water.
What is 3/4
100
The bottom number in a fraction
What is the denominator?
200
How easily the surface of a mineral can be scratched.
What is hardness?
200
Rocks that form when layers of sediments settle on top of one another and harden.
What are sedimentary rocks?
200
The process of rocks slowly breaking down into smaller parts
What is weathering
200
The percent of water on Earth that is fresh?
What is 3%
200
1/2 of a 1/2 is what fraction?
What is 1/4
300
The color of the powder that a mineral leaves when it is scratched across a special plate.
What is streak?
300
Rocks that have changed as a result of heat and pressure.
What are metamorphic rocks?
300
The process of carrying away weathered bits of rock
What is erosion?
300
Any water that is underground
What is groundwater?
300
This suffix means "happening right now"
What is -ing
400
Minerals that break along smooth, flat surfaces have this.
What is cleavage?
400
The recycling of old rock into new rock is an ongoing process called
What is the rock cycle?
400
A break or crack in rocks where Earth's crust can move suddenly?
What is a fault?
400
Any form of water that falls to Earth.
What is precipitation?
400
Lists, menus, directions are all types of this writing
What is functional writing?
500
The mineral's name for fool's gold.
What is pyrite?
500
Name two ways sediment moves from one place to another
What is water, wind, ice, gravity
500
A period of unusually low rain or snowfall?
What is a drought?
500
The movement of water from Earth's surface to the atmosphere and back again
What is the water cycle?
500
March 2nd is no school. What holiday are we celebrating?
What is Casmir Pulaski?
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