Minerals
Mining Terms
Energy Resources/Plate Tectonics
Weathering/Erosion
The Rock Cycle
100

This is a mineral's color in its powered form

What is streak?

100

This machine is used to heat material/rocks up until they melt. 

What is a smelter?

100

This type of resources will never run out. 

What is renewable?

100

This type of weathering breaks down rocks physically by water, wind, or gravity. 

What is abrasion?

100

This rock is made by both heat and pressure 

What is metamorphic?

200

This word describes when a mineral tends to break in uneven pieces 

What is fracture?
200

This term describes the by-product of a mining operation. (the secondary product made after extracting the minerals)

What is tailings?

200

This type of plate boundary can create large mountain ranges by pushing plates together 

What is convergent?

200

This type of weathering is done by plants and animals

What is biological?
200

This type of rock is made when magma cools

What is igneous?
300
This describes a minerals resistance to scratching 

What is hardness?

300

This is the useless/profitless material that is sometimes attached to ore. 

What is gangue?

300

This is the most popular type of non-renewable resource in the United States 

What is fossil fuels? (Oil, Coal,etc)

300

This term describes when rocks and sediments are dropped off somewhere new 

What is deposition?

300

This type of igneous rock cools below the surface

What is intrusive? 

400

A student is able to scratch a mineral with a penny, but not with their fingernail. This number represents this minerals hardness level 

What is 3-4?

400

A bunch of rock is moved to reach an ore deposit underneath. This term describes the rock moved 

What is spoil?

400

This type of plate boundary is most asscociated with earthquakes 

What is a transform boundary?

400

This type of weathering occurs when water chemically reacts with a rock 

What is hydrolysis? 

400

This type of sedimentary rock is created by pieces of rock cementing together 

What is clastic? 

500

This characteristic of mineral determines its hardness level. (Ex: Graphite vs a diamond) 

What is its atom structure? or Cystalline Structure

500

These are the four characteristics of minerals

What is naturally occurring, made from inorganic compounds, solid crystalline structure, and consistent chemical composition.   

500

This is 5 types of renewable energy.

What is tidal, wind, solar, hydroelectric, geothermal, hydrogen

500

This type of weather will occur when lichen grows on the side of a rock

What is organic acid?

500

This type of sedimentary rock is created when dissolved minerals are solidified 

What is chemical?