Igneous Rocks
Sedimentary and Metamorphic Rocks
Properties of Minerals
Challenge
Rockin' out
100
This can cool and harden and form igneous rock.
What is magma or lava?
100
These are little pieces of rocks, pebbles, mineral grains, and shell fragments that eventually form rocks.
What are sediments?
100
The way light reflects off of a mineral making it shiny or dull.
What is lustre?
100
Heat and pressure deep inside the earth cause these types of rock to change
What are igneous and sedimentary?
100
The process of rocks changing from one kind of rock to another kind of rock over long periods of time.
What is the rock cycle?
200
This type of igneous rocks comes from magma and is black in colour.
What is basalt?
200
Name three types of metamorphic rocks.
What is marble, slate, phyllite, quartzite, mica schist?
200
How many different types of minerals are on earth?
What is more than 2, 000?
200
A fossil is ___________.
What is the imprint of an organism on a rock?
200
Name two ways people use rocks.
What is buildings, walls, roads, jewelry, decoration, countertops?
300
This type of igneous rock comes from lava and cools with air bubbles in it
What is pumice?
300
These 2 things cause metamorphic rocks to form.
What are heat and pressure?
300
Why are some minerals are valuable for their beauty.
What is they are used to make beautiful jewellery?
300
Like a pure chocolate bar, it is made up of the same substance all the way through.
What is a mineral?
300
What happens if an igneous rock weathers? What rock does it turn into?
What is sedimentary rock?
400
This type of igneous rock is speckled and some of the speckles shine.
What is granite?
400
Name three types of sedimentary rocks.
What are limestone, shale, sandstone or conglomerate?
400
This mineral is used to make steel.
What is hematite?
400
Like a chocolate bar with all the good stuff, it is made up of 2 or more minerals.
What is a rock?
400
The hardest mineral.
What is a diamond?
500
Name three types of igneous rocks
What is granite, basalt, pumice,obsidian, gabbro?
500
Give an example of what sedimentary rocks are used for.
What is concrete, buildings, sidewalks, roads, bricks?
500
You can see this property just by looking at a mineral. Many minerals can be several of these.
What is color?
500
Describe what will happen after many years to sand and other sediment that has blown or washed to the ocean floor.
What is sediment will build up, compress together in layers and form larger rocks?
500
The 5 properties or ways to catergorize rocks and minerals?
What is shape, size, texture, colour and lustre?
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