Rocks, Minerals, and Fossils
Minerals Defined and Identified
Layers of the Earth
Weathering and Erosion
100
A sample must have these characteristics in order to be called a mineral.
What is inorganic, natural, definite chemical composition, and a solid?
100
This is a mineral's shininess.
What is luster?
100
This is the outer layer of the earth on which we live on.
What is the crust?
100
These are the reasons that weathering, erosion, and living things are important to soil.
What is weathering makes more soil, erosion can move soil around to where it is needed, living things break up rocks, loosen soil, and move soil?
200
This is the type of rock of that is formed when lava cools.
What is igneous?
200
You can figure out this characteristic by scratching a mineral.
What is hardness?
200
This part of the earth is made up of iron.
What is the core?
200
This is the two ways we can see that the Earth lies in plates.
What is volcanoes, mountains, or earthquakes?
300
This is the type of rock that is formed when tiny bits of other rocks are pressed together with it.
What is sedimentary?
300
This mark that a mineral leaves may be the same or different as the color of the mineral itself.
What is streak?
300
This upper part of this part of the earth that is flexible.
What is the mantle?
300
List three ways that God's gift of minerals can be used in today's society.
Answers will vary. See lesson 5. Jewelry, foundations for homes, electric wires, appliances...
400
This is the type of rock that is formed from heat and pressure.
What is metamorphic?
400
This can be different in the same kind of mineral.
What is color?
400
This is the theory that the Earth plates are always moving on top of the Earth's mantle.
What is plate tectonics?
400
A mixture of two or metals is called this.
What is an alloy?
500
List three processes that can form a fossil.
What is drying out (mummification), replacing body parts with minerals, leaving an imprint, drying in amber?
500
This is when something has never been alive and is not living.
What is inorganic?
500
An instrument used to detect earthquakes.
What is a seismograph?
500
This is a place where rocks and minerals are taken out of the ground.
What is a mine?
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