Mineral Properties
Rocks
Layers of Earth
Becoming a Scientist
Planets
100
Characteristics used to identify minerals.
What are properties?
100
Composed of two or more minerals.
What are rocks?
100
Inner Core
What is the innermost layer of Earth's interior?
100
science
What is a way of learning about the natural world.
100
Revolves around Earth.
What is the moon?
200
Fracture
What is the breaking into rough edges?
200
Extrusive Igneous Rocks
What are rocks that are made from lava cooling on Earth's surface?
200

Magma

What is melted rock, underground?

200
An attempt to explain observed patterns in the natural world.
What is the scientific method?
200
The sun, its nine planets, and other objects that orbit the sun.
What is the solar system?
300
Describes how light reflects from a mineral's surface
What is luster?
300

Intrusive Igneous rocks

What are rocks formed from magma cooling on the inside of Earth?

300
The layer above the inner core.
What is the outer core?
300
Earth science, life science, and physical science.
What are the three branches of science?
300
Mercury
What is the second smallest planet and the planet closest to the sun?
400
Gems
What are polished rare minerals?
400
Rocks that contain strata.
What are sedimentary?
400
Mantle
What is the layer above the outer core, and consist mainly of molten rock?
400
Technology
What are the tools scientist use to solve problems?
400
The largest planet.
What is Jupiter?
500
Mohs Scale
What is the scale used to measure hardness of a mineral?
500
Rocks changing from one type of rock to another type.
What is the rock cycle?
500
The part of Earth's layer that is thin under the oceans and thick under the continents.
What is the crust?
500
Predicting the outcome of a particular occurrence.
What is stating a hypothesis?
500
The planet that has several broad rings of ice and dust.
What is Saturn?
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