Vocabulary
Rocks
Minerals
Rocks or Minerals
Other
100
Two or more minerals combined
What is a rock?
100
A rock formed by layers of dirt particles.
What is a sedimentary rock?
100
A mineral used for salt.
What is Calcite?
100
Define a mineral.
What is earth's building block made of one substance?
100
Name one rock used for counter tops in your kitchen or bathroom.
What is Granite or Marble?
200
Define weathering.
What is weather that breaks down rocks and minerals?
200
A rock formed near or in a volcano.
What is an igneous rock?
200
Define a mineral used in a pencil
What is graphite?
200
Define a rock.
What is a substance made of 2 or more minerals?
200
How does earths surface change quickley
What is a natural disaster?
300
Define erosion.
What are sediments getting pushed?
300
Define a rock type formed deep by the earths core.
What is a metamorphic rock?
300
Define a mineral used in glass.
What is quarts?
300
Name the three rock types.
What are Igneous,Sedimentary and metamorphic rocks?
300
Define lava under ground.
What is Magma ?
400
Name a natural diaster that is a mixture of most natural disasters.
What is a hurricane?
400
Tell how rocks are classified.
What is formation into sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic?
400
This mineral is used in chalk. It is so soft that it leaves streaks behind.
What is talc?
400
This word is used to explain how sedimentary rocks' layers are forced together.
What is compress?
400
Name the 2 forces that make a metamorphic rock?
What are heat & pressure?
500
This property describes reflected light.
What is luster?
500
Igneous rocks are formed in this layer in Earth.
What is the outer core?
500
Explain how you find hardness of a mineral.
What is use a fingernail, paperclip, and/or nail to scratch it? If your fingernail scratches it, it is soft. If a paper clip or nail scratches it, it is hard, and if NOTHING scratches it, it is super hard!
500
This word comes from igneous, meaning to light a fire.
What is ignite?
500
Name the 4 layers of Earth.
What is the crust, mantle, outer core, and inner core?
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