Common Minerals & Rocks
Rocks
Rock Properties
Earth
Rock & Mineral Definitions
100
What is a diamond
What is the hardest natural substance on earth?
100
What is an igneous rocks?
What are rocks formed when magma or melted rock from deep inside the earth rises and cools.
100
When a rock is shiny it has
What is luster
100
What is layer of the earth that is made up of molten rock?
What is the mantle
100
What is made up of two or more minerals?
A rock
200
What is quartz
What is a very common mineral found on earth?
200
What glass is formed from rapidly cooled lava?
What is obsidian
200
What is hot melted rock that comes out of an erupting volcano?
Magma
200
What is the layer of earth that we live on?
The crust
200
What is composed of the same substance throughout?
A mineral
300
What is basalt
What is the most common rock found on earth?
300
Rocks formed of pebbles, stones, shells, mud and clay
What is conglomerate rock
300
What determines how easily a mineral can be scratched by objects?
What is it's hardness
300
What are the three layers of the earth?
Crust, mantle, and core
300
When rocks break down in smaller and smaller pieces the turn into
Sand
400
What is granite
What is a rock commonly used to decorate homes?
400
What is a rough coarse rock formed from a variety of rocks including granite and basalt?
What is gneiss
400
What is a rock formed from shale or slate?
What is schist
400
What is erosion
The movement of rock pieces from place to place
400
What type of rock covers 75% of the earth's surface?
Sedimentary rocks
500
What is pumice
What is a rock that can float on the surface of water?
500
What is a larger crystal rock formed from limestone?
What is marble
500
What are the three different types of rocks
What are igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks
500
Weathering can be caused by the following
What is wind, rain, ice, running water, plant roots, chemicals, freezing, and thawing.
500
What is responsible for shaping interesting landscape around us
What is erosion
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