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All the pretty Minerals!
Rocks, Rocks, Rocks!
Renewable and NonRenewable
Spinning out of Control
Vocabulary
100
Natural, non living solid crystals that make up rocks
What is a mineral?
100
The continuous cycle of breaking down and re-creating rocks is called...
What is the rock cycle
100
Resources that can be replaced are called...
What is renewable resources
100
A machine that uses moving fluid to produce electricity is called...
What is a water turbine.
100
This is when a rock can split or form natural cracks on its surface.
What is cleavage
200
Some of the physical properties seen in the minerals lab were..
What are color, luster, hardness, streak
200
This rock is created by hardened layers of sediment.
What is a sedimentary rock.
200
Resources that cannot be replaced are called...
What is nonrenewable resources
200
What is a turbine used for?
What is to produce electricity.
200
This is a large slow moving block of ice.
What is a glacier
300
The hardest Mineral
What is a diamond
300
This rock is created from molten rock being heated then cooled
What is an igneous rock
300
Examples of renewabloe resources include...
What is water, sun, wind
300
What causes a sprinkler to spin?
What is water pressure
300
This is when watre, ice, gravity, or wind can slowly move small pieces of rock.
What is erosion
400
One type of mineral we observed in the mineral lab was..
What is rose quarts, pyrite, mica, horneblend
400
This rock is created from extreme pressure.
What is a metamorphic rock.
400
Why is it important to use renewable resources verses nonrenewable resources?
What is it is better for the environment and will give time for other resources to replenish themselves.
400
Is water renewable or non renewable?
What is renewable
400
This is how bright or shiny a rock can be.
What is luster
500
On the hardness scale a 1 means the mineral is...
What is soft
500
What are the forces that can change rocks into other types of rocks?
What is heat, pressure, erosion
500
What are examples of nonrenewable resources?
What is coal, gasoline
500
This causes water to flow freely out of a turbine causing it to spin.
What is pressure
500
Conservation is....
What is using only what you need.