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3 Types of Rocks
Minerals
Properties
Vocabulary
Other
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This rock is formed of small pieces squished together

What is sedimentary?

10

Rocks are made of

What are minerals?

10

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

Color

10

The part of the Earth where we live.

What is the crust?

10
What are the 3 types of rocks?
Igneous, sedimentary, metamorphic
20

This rock is formed from heat AND pressure

What is metamorphic?

20

True or false: some minerals are softer than your fingernail

True

20

A rock that feels rough is an example of which property?

What is texture

20
Bits of rocky material that settle at the bottom of the ocean are called _________?
Sediments
20

True or false: big and small are good words to describe a rock

False
30

This rock is formed from magma or lava

What is igneous?

30

True or false: minerals always have a crystal structure

True

30

The way a rock reflects light is called ___________. Examples are metallic and pearly.

What is luster

30

The biggest layer of the Earth

What is the Mantle?

30

When a rock breaks into smaller pieces.

What is weathering?

40

The small pieces that make up a sedimentary rock.

What are sediments?

40

Tell one property used to sort and describe minerals.

Color, texture, hardness, luster

40
Scratching a rock with your fingernail can show the rock's ___________.
Hardness
40

This Earth layer is made of solid metal.

What is the inner core?

40

When rock pieces move somewhere else.

What is erosion?

50
Which rock is formed from fossils or plant and animal remains?
Sedimentary
50

True/False: Minerals are alive

False!

50

List two properties of rocks that we looked at in class.

Color, texture, luster, hardness

50
Pieces on the Earth's crust that move, making earthquakes and new mountains.

What are tectonic plates?

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The name of the super-continent when all the continents were together. 

What is Pangea?