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Rocks and Minerals
Timeline
Bellwork
Notes
Tests and Quizzes
100
One of the similarities between Limestone and Shale.
What is a sedimentary rock?
100
The length of the timeline.
What is 4.5 meters?
100
The three major types of rocks.
What are sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic?
100
The age of the Earth.
What is 4.5 billion years old?
100
A remnant or trace of a living thing embedded and preserved in rock.
What is a fossil?
200
A rock changed by heat and pressure.
What is a metamorphic rock?
200
Jurassic, Triassic, and Cretaceous.
What periods were in the Mesozoic era?
200
Molten rock.
What is melted rock?
200
The color of the powder left behind when the mineral is scraped across a surface.
What is streak?
200
The layers of the Earth. (Doesn't have to be in order.)
What are the inner core, outer core, mantle and crust?
300
A molten rock that has cooled and hardened.
What is an igneous rock?
300
The largest era.
What is the Precambrian era?
300
Destructive processes.
What is erosion, weathering, and tectonic plates sinking and melting?
300
When a rock changes due to heat and pressure.
How do metamorphic rocks form?
300
Deposition
What is the drop off of eroded particles?
400
The four characteristics of a mineral.
What: forms in nature Is a solid Has a definite chemical makeup Has a crystal structure
400
The current era.
What is the Cenozoic era?
400
Constructive processes.
What are mountain building, deposition, sedimentation and new crust formation?
400
The reason some rocks fizz.
What is Calcite?
400
The type of rock that seashell fossils usually create.
What is Limestone?
500
Yes :)
Can one rock become another rock?
500
The period in which the Redwall limestone formed.
What is the Mississippian period.
500
The similarities and differences between sand, silt and clay.
What is a group of particles are all made up a lot of small grains, but the size of the grains is different.
500
The way that light reflects off a minerals surface.
What is luster?
500
Correlation.
What is to connect in a systematic way.