Rocks
What is the definition of a rock?
What is a natural, solid, nonliving material made of one or more minerals.
What is the definition of sedimentary rock?
What is rock that forms from sediments.
What is the remains or mark of a living thing from long ago?
What is a fossil.
What is luster?
What is the way a mineral reflects light.
Name three types of rocks.
What is sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic rocks.
What is the definition of metamorphic rock?
What is rock that has been changed by heat or pressure.
Types of fossils include:
What is bones, molds of bodies, and footprints.
What is a tool used for separating materials?
What is a sieve.
What is a large rock called that is rounded or worn down by water and weather?
What is a boulder.
What is a natural material that forms from nonliving matter?
What is a mineral.
What do fossils show?
What is how plants and animals have changed over time.
Name two ways you can sort rocks.
What is by size, color, texture, streak, luster, or hardness.
(Any two will answer the question.)
Name one way people use rocks.
What is construction, building homes, streets, decoration in landscape, etc.
List four properties used to identify minerals.
What is streak, luster, color, texture, or hardness.
(Any 4 of these will work for the answer.)
What type of rock are fossils often found?
What is sedimentary.
Which is smaller, silt or sand?
What is the definition of igneous rock?
What is rock that forms when melted rock cools and hardens.
Minerals can be found around your house or classroom. Give me an example.
Iron - red meat
granite or quartz - countertops
quartz in glass or computers
graphite - pencil
aluminum - cans
What is the color of the powder a mineral leaves when it's rubbed across a surface?
What is streak.
Where might you find a boulder? Where might you find a pebble?
What is on a mountain. What is near water. What is in a desert. What is a cliff. Many answers are acceptable.