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3 Types of Rocks
Minerals
Properties
Soils
Fossils
100
Rocks formed from heat and pressure
What are metamorphic rocks?
100
Makes up rocks
What are minerals?
100
Johnny sorted his rocks into a group of gray rocks, black rocks and white rocks. Which property did he use?
What is color?
100
The part of soil made up of broken down pieces of dead plants and animals
What is humus?
100
The hardened remains of something that lived long ago
What is a fossil?
200
Rock formed from material that has settled into layers.
What are sedimentary rocks?
200
A naturally formed solid, formed in nature, and has never been alive
What is a mineral?
200
To describe a rock by the way it feels is to use this property
What is texture?
200
Most humus is found in this layer of soil
What is topsoil?
200
Describes a group of living things that is no longer living
What is extinct?
300
This type of rock is formed when a volcano explodes
What is igneous rock?
300
Which mineral is the hardest?
Diamond
300
the property that describes how shiny or dull a rock is
What is luster?
300
The type of soil found on many farms
What is loam?
300
A fossil that looks just like an actual body part of a once living thing
What is a cast?
400
The cycle that changes one rock type into another.
What is the rock cycle?
400
Tell at least two properties used to classify minerals.
Color, size, texture, hardness, luster
400
The Mohs scale measure this property of a rock
What is hardness?
400
This type of soil is made up of powdery grains
What is clay?
400
ancient tree sap that has hardened into a rock
What is amber?
500
This type of rock is the most common type in which to find a fossil
What is sedimentary?
500
True/False: Minerals are not found in rocks.
What is false
500
The softest mineral on the Mohs scale
What is talc?
500
List the soils in order of grain size, from smallest to largest
What is clay, silt and sand?
500
Replaces the wood of a once living tree to form petrified wood
What are minerals?