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Minerals 1
Minerals 2
Rocks 1
Rocks 2
Rocks3
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A pure substance found on the Earth.
What is a mineral?
100
How scientists tell minerals apart.
What is properties of minerals?
100
Rocks formed in volcanos.
What is igneous?
100
These rocks are made when erosion causes sediment to flow down stream.
What is sedimentary rocks?
100
This kind of rock means "changed."
What is metamorphic?
200
Scratching the rock on a unglazed tile to check the color.
What is the streak test?
200
The shape of salt crystals.
What is cubes?
200
Melted rock still in the volcano. Melted rock that has come out of the volcano.
What is magma? What is lava?
200
Fragmented rocks and gravel form this kind of sedimentary rock.
What is conglomerate?
200
This is how igneous and sedimentary rocks change to metamorphic rocks.
What is heat and pressure?
300
Could be cubes or hexagonal or others.
What is crystal shape of a mineral?
300
This mineral is used to make pencils.
What is graphite?
300
Obsidian doesn't have crystals for this reason.
What is cooled very quickly?
300
Mud forms this kind of sedimentary rock.
What is shale?
300
This rock use to be sandstone.
What is quartzite?
400
Checking to see if the mineral will attract iron.
Is the mineral magnetic?
400
The softest mineral on the hardness scale.
What is talc?
400
There are large crystals in granite because of this.
What is cools slowly?
400
This kind of sedimentary rock is formed in the middle of lakes and is the shells of dead animals.
What is Limestone?
400
this rock use to be limestone.
What is marble?
500
This mineral is the hardest on the hardness scale.
What is Diamond?
500
This tells if the rock is shiney or dull.
What is luster?
500
Pumice floats because of this.
What is trapped air bubbles?
500
This is where sedimentary rocks form.
What is where a river empties into a lake or ocean?
500
This rock use to be shale.
What is slate?