Key Terms
About Rocks
About Minerals
Mining
Interesting Facts
100
Concrete is a building material that is made from cement.
What is concrete?
100
The earth's surface is made up of rocks and minerals.
What is the earth's surface made up of?
100
Minerals are made from two or more minerals.
What are minerals made from?
100
The 3 main layers of earth are the crust, the mantle, and the inner core, and the outer core
What are the 3 main layers of the earth?
100
Some common minerals are copper, zinc , sapphire, ruby, emerald, and diamond.
What are some common minerals?
200
Geology means the Earth and the study of.
What does the geology mean in Greek?
200
Rocks are made up of 2 or more minerals.
What are rocks made from?
200
Elements is a substance that cannot be broken down into anything else by simple means.
What is elements?
200
1. The beautiful Butchart gardens in Victoria, British Columbia was built in an old limestone quarry. 2. An abandoned limestone quarry is now a popular swimming area.The clean, cold water is the color of emeralds.
Old mining areas have been reclaimed and used for new purposes. Give 2 examples.
200
Only diamond can sharpen diamond because diamond is very tough.
What can sharpen diamond?
300
Ores are rocks that contain large amounts of certain minerals.
What are ores?
300
Igneous:Pumice,Basalt,and Granite Sedimentary:Limestone,Shale,and Metamorphic:Marble,Slate, and Gneiss
What are the 3 main type of types of rocks and 3 examples of each?
300
Smelting is a very high heat that separate different minerals
What is smelting?
300
Mining is very bad to the environment.It causes deforestation, it pollutes the air, and chemicals that clean rocks poisons the water.
How as mining change the land?
300
There are approximately 3800 minerals.
How many minerals are there?
400
Fly Ash is an important material in concrete and is used to powers green houses gases.
What is Fly Ash?
400
Rocks can tell us how they were made.
What can rocks tell us about land?
400
The properties of minerals are... Color:You can’t identify the mineral by its color. For example, diamonds are usually blue but they can also be something else. Streak:when minerals are rubbed against a slate it leaves a powdery streak know matter what color it is. Lustre: is the reflection of how much light reflects on a mineral. If it is shiny it has a metallic-lustre if not it doesn’t. Hardness:The hardness of a mineral is a way to identify a mineral using a special scale called Moh’s scale . Transparency:Is how much light goes through a mineral. If all goes through it is transparent.Some translucent.None opaque.
Name and define the properties of minerals.
400
Quartz=clocks, and electronic devices Diamonds, and rubies=jewelry Stainless steel, titanium, and aluminum=bicycle frames Stainless steel, and aluminum=cutlery, pots and pans Stone=bridges, houses, and churches Calcium, aluminum, and silicon=concrete
What are some examples of ways we use rocks and minerals in our day-to-day lives.
400
The 12 birthstones are... January:Garnet February:Amethyst March:Aquamarine April:Diamond May:Emerald June:Pearl July:Ruby August:Peridot September:Sapphire October:Tourmaline November:Topaz December:Tanzanite
What are the 12 birthstones?
500
Insulation is a special kind of spun glass called fiberglass.
What is insulation?
500
If we know we can identify what kind of rock they are.
Why is it important to know what rocks are made from?
500
Minerals are shiny and have color and are made before rocks and are used for rocks.
Are minerals the same as rocks?
500
2 advantages of using rocks and minerals are diamonds and rubies make jewelry and salt puts flavor to food. 2 disadvantages of using rocks and minerals are salt rusts cars and salt puts higher changes of metals and toxins in the water.
What are 2 advantages and disadvantages of using rocks and minerals?
500
The first mineral ever discovered are the milestones.
What was the first mineral ever discovered?
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