Rocks
Minerals
Materials Engineering
Changes to the Earth
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100
The definition of a rock
What are solid earth materials made from more than one mineral?
100
How minerals are classified.
What is according to their properties?
100
Anything designed by man to solve a problem.
What is technology?
100
The wearing away of rock, forming sediment.
What is weathering?
100
Rocks formed when molten lava cools.
What are igneous rocks?
200
How rocks are classified.
What is based on how they are formed?
200
Tests that can be used to classify minerals.
What are the streak test and hardness test?
200
The steps in the Engineering Design Process.
What are: ask, imagine, plan, create, and improve?
200
The movement of weathered materials by wind, water, ice, or gravity.
What is erosion?
200
The test that can be performed on minerals to see the mark that is left behind when they are rubbed across a porcelain plate.
What is streak test?
300
Rocks formed deep underground when they are heated and squeezed.
What are metamorphic rocks?
300
Three physical properties that can be used to classify minerals.
What are color, luster, and texture?
300
The definition of an engineer.
Someone who uses their knowledge of science, math, and creativity to design technologies to solve problems.
300
Three things that cause the earth and rocks to be shaped slowly.
What are water, ice, and wind?
300
The way minerals reflect light.
What is luster?
400
Rocks formed when sediments are deposited in layers and harden.
What are sedimentary rocks?
400
The categories we used to classify minerals according to their luster.
What are shiny and dull?
400
The purpose of the mortar in constructing a wall.
What is to hold the bricks/rocks together?
400
Three events that cause the earth's surface to be changed quickly.
What are volcanoes, landslides, and earthquakes.
400
The job of a materials engineer.
What is to create new materials with new properties?
500
The type of rocks in which you would be most likely to find fossils.
What are sedimentary rocks?
500
Challenge: The name of the test used to classify minerals according to hardness.
What is Moh's Test of Hardness?
500
Three examples of earth materials we used to create a wall.
What are sand, clay, and soil?
500
The force that pulls earth to the ground in a landslide.
What is gravity?
500
How technology and engineers are related.
What is engineers created technologies?
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