Types of Rocks
This is a hard, natural substance made of one or more minerals that contain organic materials.
What is a rock?
This is an inorganic substance found naturally in the earth.
What is a mineral?
The center of the earth.
What is the core?
This historic event contributed to erosion.
What is the Flood?
This is a substance made of things that were never alive.
What is inorganic?
This is a rock that forms when layers of sediment and organic material harden.
What is sedimentary?
This is the way a mineral reflects light.
What is luster?
The thin outer layer of the earth.
What is the crust?
This is the movement of sediment from one place to another.
What is erosion?
This person studies the structure, rocks, and minerals of the earth.
What is a geologist?
This rock is formed from magma or volcanic lava
What is igneous?
This is the color of the mark made when a mineral sample is rubbed on a harder surface.
What is a streak?
Most of the earth’s mass is in this place.
What is the mantle?
This causes the wearing down of rock.
What is weathering?
These are beautiful and rare are called precious stones.
What are gemstones?
This rock is formed by heat and pressure deep below the earth’s crust.
What is metamorphic?
This is the characteristic of a mineral to break along smooth, straight lines or into flat sheets.
What is cleavage?
This is where minerals are usually found.
What is minerals are found on the surface of the earth or buried in the earth’s crust in rocks or in veins.
Name one thing that causes weathering.
What is water or wind?
This is done to test the hardness of a mineral.
What is a scratch test?
A rock-like substance that forms from
decayed plant matter.
What is coal?
This scale is used to determine the hardness of a mineral.
What is a Mohs scale?
This explains how the Flood could have contributed to the formation of sedimentary rock.
What is the waters of the Flood could have stirred up great amounts of dirt and particles that would settle into layers as the water receded.
This in class activity was an example of weathering.
What is the Sugar Shake lab?
The name of metals found in minerals.
What is ores?