Rocks & Minerals
Is It A Rock?
Found in your Home
Shapes
Igneous & Sedimentary
100
The upper layer of the Earth is called?
Crust.
100
I am composed of a single substance. What am I?
I am a mineral
100
You enjoy me on your Birthday and I contain gypsum and phosphates. What am I?
I am... CAKE!
100
I have six faces. What am I?
I am a cube
100
What is a batch of hot, liquid and crystal mush?
Magma
200
The characteristic we can observe that allows us to distinguish one sample from another.
Property
200
I am composed of numerous distinct grains of different sustances. What Am I?
I am a rock
200
You use me in the morning and before you go to sleep. I keep your mouth nice and shiny. What I am?
I am toothpaste
200
I am the shape of a Egyptian pyramid. What am I?
I am Tetrahedron
200
Magma that reaches the Earth's surface is called what?
It is called Lava
300
Arranging specific samples of rocks into groups is called?
Classifying
300
I am a solid substance with a regular shape. What am I?
I am a crystal
300
You pour milk into me three times a day, I'm made from silica sand, limestone, talc and feeldspar. What am I?
I am a drinking glass
300
I have the same amount of faces as an octopus has legs. What am I?
I am an Octahedron
300
The process of wind, rain, heating and freezing causing rocks to break down into tiny pieces or fragments.
Weathering
400
It is important to push what in before you leave for the day?
What is your chair
400
The smallest piece of mineral in a rock is called?
A grain
400
My kitty appreciates using this instead of going outside. He like to pile it high as he digs to China. What am I?
I am kitty litter (made of pumice, volcanic ash, diatomite)
400
I get my shape name from a rock that people think is gold. What am I?
I am a pyrithedron
400
The process by which sediments are stripped away by wind and rain and transported.
What is erosion
500
They are the five properties we use to classify rocks. What are they?
Color, luster, hardness, shape, texture
500
I am specially classified as a substance composed of matter that is alive or was alive. What am I?
I am organic
500
I was on your bottom before you were one, it kept you dry and felt so silky. What am I?
I am baby powder
500
Quartz has my shape, a shape that had many faces. What am I?
I am a hexagonal prism
500
The most important distinguishing properties of sedimentary rock is its?
Layers
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