Rock Cycle
Minerals
Vocabulary
Mineral Properties
Surprise
100
I am sedimentary rock. What will happen to me to become a metamorphic rock?
Heat and Pressure will be added.
100
I am the hardest mineral
Diamond
100
Minerals have many uses, name 5.
jewelry, building, tools, food, pencils, more possible
100
What is the shine of a mineral called?
Luster
100
Rocks are made up from mixtures of ______
Minerals
200
I am magma. What will happen to me to become an igneous rock?
I will erupt out of a volcano, cool and harden
200
I am the softest mineral
Talc
200
What is a mineral ?
A natural pure substance made by the Earth
200
Describe a streak test
You drag a mineral across a tile and record the color of the powder left behind
200
Name three minerals that Quartz can scratch and explain why you chose them?
Answers vary ..... Miss S will decide
300
What is sediment and what are 3 types of sediment?
Sediment is broken pieces of rock Sand, mud, gravel, clay, soil
300
Why can you not name a mineral based on its color?
1. Many different minerals are the same color 2. One mineral can come in all different colors
300
An imprint or remain of a once living thing. Name four types
Fossil bone, tooth, claw, droppings, egg, nest, bone, skeleton, shell, plant, footprint, imprint
300
What tools do we use to test hardness, list them in order from weakest to strongest
Fingernail, copper, steel, glass
300
Name three minerals that can scratch quartz and explain your answer.
Topaz, Corundum and Diamond because they are all rated higher than Quartz on the hardness scale
400
Describe what will happen when a metamorphic rock becomes an igneous rock.
The rock will melt into magma, erupt out of a volcano becoming lava, the lava will cool and harden into an igneous rock
400
Name three things we use minerals for
Jewelry, construction, eating, electronics, writing
400
What is weathering and what are four things that can cause weathering?
Weathering is a process that breaks rocks into small pieces of sediment. Plants, temperature, water and wind cause weathering.
400
What is cleavage ?
The way a mineral a mineral breaks
400
Describe what erosion does to sediment and name three things that cause erosion.
Erosion moves sediment by gravity, water and wind
500
Turn magma into a sedimentary rock.
Answers could vary.....Miss S will decide.
500
I am a versatile mineral. I come in many colors and am used for jewelry, glass, building and electronics. What am I?
Quartz
500
What are the changes called that rocks can go through?
Rock Cycle
500
Name all 5 properties a person would need to test to identify a mineral
Color, Luster, Cleavage, Streak, and Hardness
500
What scale do we use to rate a mineral's hardness?
Moh's
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