Rocks/Minerals 1
Rocks/Minerals 2
Rocks/Minerals 3
Rocks/Minerals 4
Rocks/Minerals 5
100
These are the 3 types of rocks.
What are igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic
100
This rock is made from hot, melted rock.
What is igneous?
100
This is hot liquid rock inside the earth.
What is magma?
100
This is magma that reaches the surface of the earth
What is lava?
100
This is how igneous rocks have small grains and smooth fine texture.
What is "they cool quickly outside of the earth's crust."
200
This is the rock that is made from both heat and squeezing (pressure)
What is metamorphic?
200
This is the type of rock that sandstone is.
What is sedimentary?
200
This is the type of rock that granite and basalt are.
What is igneous?
200
This is what causes igneous rock grains to be large and the texture rough.
What is cool slowly beneath the earth?
200
This is rock that is made from tiny bits of rocks, and decayed plants and animal parts that get pressed together.
What is sedimentary rock?
300
This is the minerals pieces inside a rock.
What are grains?
300
This is the way a rock looks/feels.
What is texture?
300
This is a non-living solid substance found in nature.
What is a mineral?
300
This is a non-living substance made of minerals.
What is a rock?
300
This is the property that is based on the color left by a mineral when it is rubbed across a white tile.
What is streak?
400
This is the scale used to determine a mineral's hardness.
What is Moh's scale?
400
The softest mineral.
What is talc.
400
The hardest mineral.
What is a diamond?
400
This is the property that describes how light reflects off a mineral.
What is luster?
400
This looks like gold but it leaves a dark colored streak.
What is fool's gold (pyrite)
500
An estimate of about how many minerals there are in the world.
What is about 3,000.
500
Iron we need for our bodies come from here. (Name one source)
What are green, leafy vegetables and red meat.
500
Tiny pieces of rock and part of once-living plants and animals parts.
What is sediment?
500
Fossils are found in this type of rock.
What is sedimentary?
500
Minerals valued for their beauty.
What are gems?
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