Minerals
Rocks
100

This is one of the properties of a mineral, but this characteristic is not very reliable.

What is color?

100

These are the three types of rocks

What are metamorphic, sedimentary and igneous?

200

Hardest mineral

What is diamond?

200

Half dome in Yosemite is made of this rock

What is granite?

300

Minerals produced by a human or animal

What is an organic mineral?

300

These are the 5 steps in the formation of a sedimentary rock

What are weathering and erosion, transportation, deposition, compaction, and cementation?

400

This is a mineral

What is something that is naturally occuring, solid, forms by inorganic processes, has a crystal structure, and a definite chemical composition?

400

This is the rock that granite becomes if undergoes great heat and pressure

What is gneiss?
500

These are 8 properties of minerals

What are color, streak, luster, hardness, density, crystal structure, cleavage or fracture, special?

500

This is the rock that marble becomes if undergoes great heat and pressure

What is limestone?

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