Rocks & Minerals
A rock that is formed by heat and pressure.
What is Metamorphic?
These are the three main states of matter.
What is solid, liquid, and gas?
This type of figurative language uses "like" or "as" to compare two things and help a reader visualize.
What is a simile?
This fraction that is equivalent to 4/6.
What is 2/3 or 8/12?
The sum of 347 and 103.
What is 450?
The hardest mineral on Moh's Scale of Hardness.
What is Diamond?
Protons and neutrons are found in this part of an atom.
What is the nucleus?
This is the type of figurative language used in, "The classroom was a churning machine during group work."
What is a metaphor?
4/5 - 2/5 = THIS
What is 3/5?
This is the estimate of the difference between 900 and 685.
What is 200?
A type of rock that is formed from volcanic fire or magma.
What is Igneous?
This element has the symbol O on the Periodic Table.
What is oxygen?
The type of figurative language used in, "The wind whispered through the trees".
What is personification?
Sarah ate 2/8 of a pizza and her brother ate 3/8. What fraction of the pizza did they eat altogether?
What is 5/8?
Using the commutative property, this is another way to express the equation 8x4 = 32.
What is 4x8 = 32?
The lightest mineral on Moh's Scale. It is very scratchable.
What is Talc?
When I am observing a small tree branch, I notice that it is light gray, it floats on water, and it is rough to the touch. I'm observing THESE.
What are the properties of an object?
"It's raining cats and dogs."
What is an idiom?
A rectangle is shaded to show the fraction 3/4. If you divide the rectangle into 8 total pieces instead, this is how many are now shaded.
What is SIX? (6/8)
The answer to 4 x 26, using the Distributive Property.
What is 104?
If sedimentary rock weathers and washes down a beach in a storm, the activity is known as this...
What is Erosion?
What is a physical change?
This is what it is called when a word sounds like the noise it makes, such as "buzz", "boom", or "swish".
What is Onomatopeia?
Which fraction is greatest: 1/2, 2/3, or 3/5? Explain how you know.
What is 2/3? (It is furthest to the right on a number line.)
A book has 180 pages. You read 90 on Monday and 23 on Tuesday. This is the number of pages you have left to read.
What is 67? ;)