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Ingenous Rocks
Metamorphic and Sedimentary Rocks
Minerals
Challenge
Rockin Along
100
This can cool and harden and form igneous rock.
What is magma or lava?
100
These are little pieces of rocks, pebbles, mineral grains, and shell fragments that eventually form rocks.
What are sediments?
100
How light shines off a mineral. It can be either shiny or dull.
What is luster
100
Name the layers of the Earth.
What is crust, mantle, outer core, and inner core?
100
The process of rocks changing from one kind of rock to another kind of rock over long periods of time.
What is the rock cycle
200
This kind of igneous rock is formed when magma cools beneath the Earth's surface.
What is Intrusive igneous rock?
200
These are two ways that sediments are formed.
What is weathering and erosion?
200
The measure of how difficult it is for a mineral to be scratched.
What is hardness
200
A fossil is ___________.
What is the imprint of an organism on a rock?
200
Name two ways people use rocks.
Various answers
300
This type of igneous rock forms when lava cools on the Earth's surface.
What is Extrusive igneous rock?
300
These causes metamorphic rocks to form.
What is heat and pressure.
300
The people who created the scale of hardness.
What is Moh
300
A hard substance composed of one or more minerals.
What is a rock.
300
What happens if an igneous rock weathers? What rock does it turn into?
What is sedimentary rock
400
This type of igneous rock is black with a glassy texture. We looked at it in class.
What is obsidian?
400
For an Igneous rock to become a sedimentary rock, what needs to happen?
What is erosion
400
The softest mineral is.
What is talc.
400
What is the mineral found in your toothpaste?
What is calcite
400
Name a pro of mining.
Various answers
500
What does igneous mean?
What is fire.
500
An example of sedimentary rock that is found in water.
What is limestone
500
The mineral do miners use to break other rock.
What is a diamond.
500
Everyone has a birthstone. These are also known as
What is a gem
500
The 2 of the 3 properties of minerals that we discussed in class.
What is luster hardness, color