Rocks
This rock is formed from the cooling and hardening of lava/magma. What is it?
Igneous Rock
True or False: Minerals are made from plants and animals?
False. Minerals are made from nature
Examples of this property are red, blue, orange, pink and grey
Colour
What type of mining was used in the past to find gold?
Panning
True or False: Rocks can contain fossils
True
What is the strongest mineral?
Diamond
This physical property is described as regular or irregular
Shape
What type of mining has miners go into a shaft to extract rocks and minerals?
Underground mining
Marble is an example of this type of rock. It is formed through heat and pressure. What rock is it?
Metamorphic rock
Hardness
Hardness
What type of mining happens when miners scrape soil away from the Earth's surface?
Surface mining
This rock is formed at the bottom of oceans. What is it?
Sedimentary Rock
True or False: Minerals can be found in food?
True. Minerals like sodium (salt) are in our food
What is streak?
The color that is left behind by a rock or mineral scraping another material
What are the three R's that we can do to reduce mining's impact on the environment?
What are three ways rocks are used in daily life?
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Name 3 different minerals
Ex. gold, quartz, emerald, diamond, etc.
What is lustre?
How dull, shiny, metallic, etc. a mineral is
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