Vocabulary
Minerals
Rocks
Changing Rocks
Uses for Rocks
100
The process by which wind and water move small pieces of rock from one place to another.
What is erosion?
100
Friedrick Mohs created this scale to rank the hardness of a mineral.
What is Mohs' hardness scale?
100
The building blocks of all rocks.
What is minerals?
100
Two forces that can change one rock type into another rock type.
What is heat and pressure?
100
A cleaning agent using forms of calcite.
What is toothpaste?
200
The continuous process by which one rock type is changed into another rock type.
What is the rock cycle?
200
The softness mineral found on Mohs' Hardness Scale.
What is talc?
200
These rocks are formed underground.
What is igneous rock?
200
A naturally occurring event that will leave behind igneous rock.
What is volcanoes?
200
A strong material often applied to the blades of saws used to cut through very hard objects.
What is diamond?
300
A mineral's ability to resist scratches.
What is hardness?
300
The hardest mineral found on Mohs' Hardness Scale.
What is diamond?
300
These rocks are the result of many years of heat and pressure acting on rocks.
What is metamorphic rock?
300
Once changed through heat and pressure, granite is changed into another rock.
What is sandstone?
300
A beautiful substance used for kitchen counters.
What is granite?
400
The color of the powder left by a mineral being scratched on a white tile.
What is streak?
400
The physical structure of minerals.
What is crystaline?
400
These rocks contain others rocks or pieces of rocks.
What is sedimentary?
400
Once quartz is changed over millions of years, it becomes another rock.
What is marble?
400
A metamorphic rock resistant to weathering and often used for statues.
What is marble?
500
The process where sediment is dropped out of water and wind.
What is deposition?
500
Characteristics used to identify minerals.
What is mineral properties?
500
Often sedimentary rock is made from pebbles, sand, and other pieces of rock pushed together through years of pressure.
What is conglomerate?
500
A common collection of small and large rock particles, humus, sediment, weathered rock.
What is soil?
500
A rough, unpolished rock used as curbing and benches around Foster School.
What is granite?
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