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Rocks
Minerals
Identifying rocks and minerals
Vocabulary
Misc.
100
Igneous Rock
What is the type of rock that forms when melted rock (magma or lava) cools and hardens?
100
Minerals
What is a solid material that forms from one or more chemicals in the Earth?
100
Hardness
What is the ability of one mineral to scratch another?
100
Geologist
What is a person who studies rocks and minerals called?
100
Silicon
What comes from rocks that is used in computers, satellites, and video games?
200
Metamorphic Rock
What is the type of rock that forms under pressure and heat deep within the Earth?
200
Salt
What is a mineral that is formed naturally in the Dead Sea?
200
Crystal
What is the shape of minerals?
200
Soil
What is a mixture of weathered rocks, minerals, humus, air and water?
200
Quartz
What mineral is found in metamorphic, igneous, and sedimentary rocks?
300
Sedimentary Rock
What is the type of rock that forms from sediments or pieces of older rock, usually in layers?
300
Gold
What is a type of mineral that is used to make jewelry and money?
300
Moh's Scale
What is the rating scale called that indicates a minerals's hardness?
300
Rock Cycle
What is the process that causes one rock to become another?
300
Fossil
What is a trace or impression of the remains of a plant or animal that lived in the past and is now preserved in the Earth's crust?
400
Rocks
What is a solid material that is made up of one or more minerals?
400
Crystal
What are minerals that form solid matter called?
400
Streak
What is the line left when a mineral is rubbed on a piece of unglazed glass called?
400
Erosion
What is the carrying away of weathered rock bits by wind, water, and gravity?
400
Natural Resource
What is anything from the Earth that is used by people?
500
Mineral
What is a tiny piece of rock that is worn away by wind or water?
500
Metamorphic Rock?
What type of rock is the Jefferson Memorial made of?
500
Luster
What is the way a mineral reflects light called?
500
Weathering
What is the changing of the Earth's surface by water, wind, or living things?
500
Paleontologist
What is a person that studies fossils called?