CATEGORY 1: ROCK BASICS
Which are nonliving Earth resources?
What are minerals and rocks?
What are the 3 properties used to identify minerals?
What are colour, luster, and hardness?
What are the layers of Earth (outside → inside)?
What are crust, mantle, outer core, inner core?
Which rock forms from melted material?
What is igneous rock?
Letting all light through clearly
What is transparent?
What is the rock cycle?
What is a process where one type of rock changes into another?
What does “hardness” mean?
What is how resistant a mineral is to scratching?
What layer is below the crust?
What is the mantle?
Which rock forms in layers?
What is sedimentary rock?
Letting some light through (blurry)
What is translucent?
What are ways to describe rocks?
What are size, shape, colour, patterns, hardness, and texture?
What is “luster”?
What is how a mineral reflects light?
What is the center of the Earth called?
What is the core?
Which rock is changed by heat and pressure?
What is metamorphic rock?
Blocking all light
What is opaque?
Rocks are made up of what?
What are minerals?
What is a mineral?
What is a naturally occurring, nonliving substance?
What is magma?
What is molten rock under Earth’s surface?
Which rock often contains fossils?
What is sedimentary rock?
A scientist who studies rocks
What is a geologist?
Can any rock become another type of rock?
What is no (all rocks can change)?
What is streak/colour?
What is the colour a mineral leaves behind?
What is lava?
What is molten rock that flows on Earth’s surface?
Which rock is found near volcanoes?
What is igneous rock?
Rocks formed from layers
What are sedimentary rocks?