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More Properties of Minerals
Challenge
Rockin' & mineraln' out
100
This can cool and harden and form igneous rock.
What is magma or lava?
100

Name 3 of the properties of minerals we talked about in class today

What are luster, color, streak, or hardness?

100
The way light reflects off of a mineral.
What is luster?
100
Name the three types of rock groups.
What is Sedimentary, Igneous and Metamorphic?
100

The outermost layer of the Earth is called the _____?

What is the crust?

200

This type of rock is very light with lots of holes in it. We looked at it in class.

What is pumice?

200

True or false: color is a reliable characteristic of the identification of minerals.

What is false?

200
The scale that is used to measure the hardness of minerals
What is Moh's Hardness Scale
200

What do obsidian, coal, and sandstone have in common?

What is they are all rocks?

200
Name two ways people use rocks.
What is buildings, walls, jewelry, decoration, countertops?
300
Igneous rocks come from _____________ activity.
What is volcanic?
300

True or false: streak means the color of a mineral as a powder.

What is true?

300
Another way to identify minerals; it leaves the color of the powder behind when rubbed against a rough white tile.
What is streak?
300

The rock cycle describes how rocks ________?

What is change over time, are formed, or are broken down?

300

what is the most common material found on Earth?

What are minerals?

400
The most important factor in forming igneous rocks is___________.
What is cooling (cool temperatures)?
400

True or false: to test hardness, you use the scratch test.

What is true?

400

The light test is used to identify which property of minerals?

What is luster?

400
A hard substance composed of one or more minerals.
What is a rock?
400
The hardest mineral.
What is a diamond?
500
The word ignis in Latin relates to igneous rock. What does ignis mean?
What is fire?
500

What makes diamonds the hardest mineral?

What is the way the atoms are aligned?

500

You can see this property just by looking at a mineral.

What is color?

500

Sediment can be found at the bottom of what three bodies of water?

What are rivers, lakes, or oceans?

500

Johnny sorted his rocks into a group of gray rocks, black rocks, and white rocks. Which property did he look at?

What is color?