Types of Rocks
Properties of Minerals
Minerals
Earth's Layers
Rocks
100
How many different types of rocks are there?
What is 3.
100
How many properties of minerals are there?
What is 4.
100
What is one way we use minerals every day?
What is glasses, watches, bats, windows, pipes.
100
How many layers does the Earth have?
What is 3. (4 is acceptable)
100
What cools to form hard igneous rocks?
What is lava.
200
What type of rocks are formed by extreme heat and pressure?
What is metamorphic.
200
What is luster?
What is the way a mineral shines or reflects light.
200
What is another way we use minerals every day?
What is glasses, watches, bats, windows, pipes.
200
What is the layer of the Earth called that we walk on?
What is the crust.
200
What do layers of sediment have to do to form sedimentary rocks?
What is harden.
300
What type of rocks are formed when magma or molten rock deep inside the Earth cools?
What is Igneous.
300
What is streak?
What is the color of a mineral when it is ground to a powder.
300
What is one way to identify a mineral?
What is luster, hardness, streak, cleavage.
300
What is the top layer of the Earth?
What is the crust.
300
Wind and water break rocks into small ______________.
What is pieces.
400
What type of rocks are formed near the surface of the Earth by wind, water, and weather?
What is Sedimentary.
400
What is hardness?
What is the measure of how easily a mineral can be scratched?
400
What is another way to identify minerals?
What is luster, streak, hardness, cleavage.
400
What is the 2nd and thickest layer of the Earth?
What is the mantle.
400
Metamorphic rocks are rocks that have ____________.
What is changed.
500
True or False. The rock cycle is the continuous series of changes that rocks undergo.
What is true.
500
What is cleavage?
What is the tendency of a mineral to split easily along flat surfaces.
500
What are two types of minerals?
What is quartz and mica.
500
What is the innermost layer of the Earth?
What is the core.
500
What two things happen deep inside the Earth to cause igneous and sedimentary rocks to change?
What is heat and pressure.
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