Identifying Minerals
Testing Minerals
Rocks
How Rocks are Formed
Other Rocks
100

A solid inorganic substance of natural occurrence

What is a mineral?

100

True or False: All mineral are rocks.

True

100

True or False?

All rocks are minerals. 

False

100

Igneous rocks are formed by what processes?

What is melting and cooling? 

100

The process that transforms sedimentary, metamorphic, and igneous into new rocks. It is occurring continuously in nature

What is the Rock Cycle?


200

You can classify minerals by looking at their? 

  1. Color
  2. Hardness
  3. Texture
  4. All of the above

D) all the above. 

200

A scale that tests the hardness of a mineral by scratching other material

Moh's Scale of Hardness

200

A naturally occurring solid composed of minerals, rock fragments, and sometimes other materials such as organic matter

What is a rock?

200

If a scientist found a rock that was formed from heat and pressure, how would this rock be classified?

What is Metamorphic?

200

Sedimentary rock made mainly from fragments of other rock

What is clastic rock?

300

A student is performing an investigation by scratching a mineral on a porcelain plate and examining the powder's color.
Which question is the student most likely trying to answer?

A) What color is the mineral?

B) Which mineral has a shinier luster?

C) What is the texture of the mineral?

D)  What is the mineral's streak?

D) What is the mineral's streak? 

300

What is the  characteristic of minerals that isn't that reliable when used to identify them.

What is color? 

300

How many main groups of rocks are there? 

What are three main groups?

300

Rock that formed when lava erupted onto Earth’s surface? 

What is extrusive? 

300

Clastic rock made of rounded pebbles cemented together

conglomerate

400

Most minerals do NOT split apart evenly. Instead, they have a characteristic type of ___________.



What is fracture?

400

Name two ways to identify a mineral

Look at the color, hardness, specific arrangement, texture, and luster 

400

When a rock is weathered, eroded, deposited, compacted, and cemented, which type of rock is formed?

A) Metamorphic

B) Sedimentary

C) Igneous

B) Sedimentary

400

Rock that started with Chuck Barry

What is rock-n-roll?

400

Sedimentary rock that forms from chemicals dissolved in water

What is chemical rock?

500

Diamond and pencil are both made from this mineral?

What is carbon?

500

The hardest mineral

What is a diamond?

500

Metamorphic rock that does not show bands 

What is non-foliated? 

500

This rock group from England was formed in 1960

Who are the Beatles?

500

The voice of Maui

Who is Dwayne Rock Johnson?

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