Minerals are Amazing
Science Rocks
Rocks Rock
Colliding Continents
Miscellaneous is a Mystery
100
This is a naturally occurring, inorganic solid with a definite crystal structure.
What is a Mineral
100
Name the three major classes of rocks.
What is igneous, sedimentary, and Metamorphic
100
The principle behind this is that rocks are never created nor destroyed, but are recycled.
What is the Rock Cycle
100
Tectonic Plates sit on this layer of the Earth.
What is the Mantle
100
There are this many major crystal systems.
What is 6
200
This is a solid in which the atoms are arranged in repeating patterns
What is a Crystal
200
This type/class of rock arises from the transformation/change of existing rock types. Heat and pressure are applied for this change to occur.
What is Metamorphic
200
This is the type of rock where fossils are found.
What is Limestone (Sedimentary)
200
Plate tectonics is powered by this.
What is heat and pressure.
200
This is the name of the Earth's first super continent.
What is Vaalbara
300
This is a mineral that contains silicon and oxygen, and at least one other element.
What is a Silicate
300
This igneous rock is used to make arrowheads because its edges are sharp.
What is Obsidian.
300
This is type of igneous rock that makes up most of the ocean floor.
What is Basalt.
300
This is where scientists believe Earth got its first sources of water.
What are meteorites and asteroids carrying water
300
In the rock lab, a rock reacted with HCL if it contained calcite. What was released during this reaction?
What is CO2--Carbon Dioxide
400
These are the two most common elements in the Earth's crust
What is Oxygen and Silicon
400
Name at least 3 properties of minerals.
What are crystals, color, luster, hardness, streak, and/or cleavage
400
Identify the series of geologic processes that can transform sediment into shale, shale into slate, and slate into magma.
What is compacting and cementing, heat and pressure, and melting.
400
This is the name of the first, early organisms that evolved when land masses were forming.
What are Microbes.
400
Heat from the core creates these in the mantle.
What are Convection Currents.
500
This mineral group is made up of one element only, such as Copper (Cu) and Silver (Ag)
What is a Native Element
500
Name the 5 geologic processes that can change rock.
What is heat and pressure, melting, cooling, weathering and erosion, and compacting and cementing.
500
This is the type of rock formed from the slow cooling of magma under or within the Earth's surface.
What is Intrusive Igneous
500
This is the name of the zone where crust dives down into the mantle. (one plate is pushed under another)
What is Subduction Zone
500
This is the type of plate boundary that forms where two plates slide past one another.
What is Transform Boundary.
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