Minerals
Igneous Rocks
Sedimentary Rocks
Metamorphic Rocks
Vocabulary Review
100
What rocks are made of.
"What are minerals?"
100
Melted rock below Earth's surface and melted rock above Earth's surface are these.
"What are magma and lava?"
100
Tiny broken bits of rocks, plants, bones, shells, and other animal material.
"What is sediment?"
100
The metamorphic rock used to make chalkboards.
"What is slate?"
100
The ability of a mineral to scratch another mineral is this.
"What is hardness?"
200
Rocks that are mined because they contain useful substances.
"What are ores?"
200
When melted rock cools and hardens it becomes this.
"What is igneous rock?"
200
The sedimentary rock that is formed at the bottom of the ocean.
"What is limestone?"
200
Name ways metamorphic rock are used.
"What are buildings, roofs, walkways, glass, tile floors, statues, and jewelry?"
200
Rock that is formed from another rock that is being squeezed and heated.
"What is metamorphic rock?"
300
Three ways minerals are identified.
"What are luster, splitting, and streak?"
300
Hard and used to make buildings.
"What is granite?"
300
The sedimentary rock that is formed by bits of sand and may show ripples if formed under water.
"What is sandstone?"
300
True or False. Soft coal is sedimentary rock?
"What is true?"
300
Rock is made up of one or more of this.
"What are minerals?"
400
Name two ways minerals are different.
"What are shape and color?"
400
Scratchy and used in cleaners.
"What is pumice?"
400
This sedimentary rock may have several sizes and kinds of sediment, look chunky, and feel rough.
"What is conglomerate?"
400
True or False. Hard coal burns cleaner and longer than soft coal.
"What is true?"
400
Useful minerals can be mined from this.
"What is ore?"
500
To determine a minerals __________, scientists see how easily it is scratched.
"What is hardness?"
500
Like shiny, smooth glass.
"What is obsidian?"
500
How metamorphic rocks are formed.
"What is the process of rocks being heated and squeezed?"
500
The continual changing of one kind of rock into another.
"What is rock cycle?"
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