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Love My Minerals
Name that Mineral
"Rock"ing It Out
'Round the Cycle We Go
Hodgepodge
100
The way a mineral reflects light.
What is luster?
100
This mineral identification method is considered unreliable.
What is color?
100
Heat and pressure for this type of rock.
What is metamorphic rock?
100
Layers of a sedimentary rock are called this.
What are strata?
100
Mining that occurs at or near the surface of the earth.
What is surface mining?
200
The color of a mineral in its powdered form.
What is streak?
200
Scientists use this to determine the hardness of a mineral.
What is Mohs Hardness Scale?
200
If a rock melts and then cools very slowly inside the earth, it would become this type of rock.
What is intrusive igneous rock?
200
Igneous rock begins as this.
What is magma?
200
Mining that requires passageways be dug into the earth to reach the ore deposited too deep to be surface mined.
What is subsurface mining?
300
A mineral breaks in a rough, jagged pattern.
What is fracture?
300
A mineral's resistance to being scratched.
What is hardness?
300
Four main processes that form sedimentary rocks.
What is weathering, erosion, compaction, cementation?
300
An example of sedimentary rock is this.
What is sandstone, shale, siltstone, limestone, etc?
300
If the temperature of the water is raised, then the frog population will increase. The temperature of the water is ?
What is the independent variable?
400
The four elements that must exist for it to be considered a mineral
What are naturally formed, inorganic, solid, crystalline structure?
400
A mineral breaks in smooth, clean lines.
What is cleavage?
400
After melting, a rock that forms from lava that cools very quickly on the surface of the earth is this type of rock.
What is extrusive igneous rock?
400
Describe the minerals and other materials that make up a rock.
What is composition?
400
The step in the scientific method that follows making observations.
What is form a hypothesis?
500
If a mineral scratches calcite but is scratched by apatite, name the mineral and its hardness.
What is fluorite, 4?
500
Name at least two special properties of minerals.
What is fluorescence, magnetism, chemical reaction, taste, optical properties, and/or radioactivity.
500
A naturally occurring, solid mixture of one or more minerals and organic matter is this.
What is a rock?
500
Marble is an example of this rock.
What is metamorphic?
500
The tool that would be used to measure the volume of an egg?
What is a graduated cylinder?