Minerals
Rocks
Renewable/Nonrenewable
Classification
Physical Characteristics
100

The strongest mineral.

What is a diamond?

100

A rock formed through deposition and solidification of sediment.

What is a sedimentary rock?

100

A resource that can be used repeatedly and replaced naturally.

What is a renewable resource?

100

Minerals contained in the rock, Texture, Some rocks are not made of minerals.



How To Identify Rock Type?

100

The shade the rock looks.

What is color?

200

Materials inside a rock.

What is a mineral?

200

Rocks formed by the cooling and solidifying of molten materials.

What is an igneous rock?

200

A resource of economic value that can't be replaced by natural means.

What is a non-renewable resource?

200

What the rock feels like.

What is texture?

200

The color of the mineral's powder.

What is a streak?

300

A salt in which the anion contains both silicon and oxygen.

What is Silicates?

300

A rock changed by extreme heat and pressure.

What is a metamorphic rock?

300

Energy powered by heat from the sun that never runs out.

What is solar energy?

300

What rock is composed of?

What is composition?

300

The shininess of the rock.

What is luster?

400

A salt of the anion c32, typically by reaction with carbon dioxide.

What are carbonates?

400

The cycle of rocks.

What is the rock cycle? 

400

Types of resources that aren't renewable.

What are Gasoline, coal, natural gas, diesel, plastics are other fossil fuels?

400

How the rock was made.

What is the rock formation?

400

The pattern in which a mineral breaks.

What is a fracture?

500

A binary compound of oxygen with another element or group.

What is oxide?

500

Molten material that helps form rocks.

What is magma?

500

The long-term rise in the average temperature of the Earth's climate system, an aspect of climate change shown by temperature measurements and by multiple effects of the warming.

What is global warming?

500

The physical properties a rock must have.

What is color, streak, luster, density, cleavage, fracture, and hardness?

500

The tendency to break on planes of weakness.

What is cleavage?

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