Minerals
True or False
Minerals are always crystalline.
TRUE
What is a rock made out of?
Minerals
What is a similarity between rocks and minerals?
They both can be found in the earth's crust
What is the rock cycle?
The way a rock changes.
What is Minning?
The process of extracting useful materials from the earth.
What is a mineral?
Crystalline structure that has been formed.
What are Metamorphic Rocks made out of?
Heat and pressure.
How are rocks and minerals alike?
They are both not man-made.
What is the first step in making a Sedimentary rock?
Weathering and Erosion
What is surface mining?
Removal of minerals or other materials at or near the Earth’s surface.
Are minerals a solid or a liquid?
SOLID
How are Igneous Rocks made?
Melting and Cooling
What is a similarity between rocks and minerals?
Rocks and minerals can come in many colors.
What's the first step in creating a igneous rock?
Melting and cooling
What is deep mining?
Drilling deep passageways below Earth’s surface to reach the ore.
True or False
Minerals are made of chemicals
TRUE
What are Rocks constantly changing?
Shape and Compasition
What is a difference between the two?
Rocks are made up of two of more minerals.
What is the first step in making a metamorphic rock?
Heat and pressure
What is responsible mining? (there are two answers)
1. It can disturb habitats of plants and animals.
2. Waste products from the removal of the ore can also cause pollution.
What are the four characteristics of a mineral?
Solid
Non-Living
Crystalline Structure - Solid, geometric forms of minerals created by a repeating pattern of atoms
Formed by Nature (not man made).
What is a Sedimentary Rock made out of?
Weathering, Erosion, Deposition, Stratification, Compaction, and Cementation.
What is a difference between rocks and minerals?
Minerals have a crystalline structure.
How can you relate the rock cycle to the crayon lab that we did?
It shows the part when the crayons/rocks are broken down, then you add pressure which forms rock, lastly you melt it and it turns into crystals.
What is the reclamation act?
A law since 1970 states that after mining you must return land to its original state after the mining is completed.