Types of Rocks
Uses of Rocks and Minerals
Rock Characteristics
Rocks and Minerals
Potluck
100
Rocks that are made when melted lava cools and hardens
What is Igneous Rock?
100
We eat this mineral everyday.
What is salt?
100
The color that the mineral left on the white or black piece of tile was called the mineral's ________________
What is streak?
100
A naturally found solid made of one or more minerals.
What is a rock?
100
All rocks are made of these.
What are minerals?
200
A type of rock that forms when pieces of broken rocks and shells settle on top of each other and are layered together.
What is Sedimentary Rock?
200
We learned that Rocks and minerals can be used in many things. Some of the uses we discussed in class are...
What is : Making roads, buildings, jewelry, homes, and aluminum cans?
200
A mineral was considered to be very hard if it could not be scratched by these things:
What is fingernail, penny and nail?
200
A non-living material found in nature, made of one ingredient.
What is a mineral?
200
Fossils are mostly found in this type of rock.
What is sedimentary?
300
The type of rock that is formed when either a Sedimentary Rock, or Igneous Rock changes into another type of rock.
What is Metamorphic Rock?
300
Mass, shape, and size
What are properties you DON'T use to identify minerals ?
300
The way that a mineral reflected light was called the mineral's
What is Luster?
300
Rare minerals that are often used to make jewelry.
What are gems?
300
You must look at several mineral properties, such as luster, color, steak, and use an identification chart.
What is how to identify an unknown mineral?
400
This causes Metamorphic Rocks to be able to "morph" or change.
What are heat and pressure?
400
This is the hardest mineral (gem)? It is used to make jewelry and drill bits.
What is a diamond?
400
Color, luster, hardness, streak color, and cleavage (how the mineral breaks apart).
What are properties used to identify minerals?
400
Color, luster, streak, or hardness.
What are properties used to identify minerals?
400
A fossil that is a print, cavity, or opening in a rock that has the shape of a once living thing.
What is a mold?
500
Igneous Rocks can be found on or in the earth's
What is "Crust"?
500
Blue granite and amethyst.
What are South Carolina's state rock and state gem?
500
The forms of luster included metallic and shiny. What is the missing one?
What is dull?
500
They can be identified by their properties (luster, color, hardness).
What is true about all minerals?
500
A mold that has be filled in with sediments which harden and take the shape of the once living thing make a ___________ fossil.
What is a cast?
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