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Rocks
Minerals
Properties of Rocks and Minerals
Don't Lose Your Marbles
Anything Goes
100
This is the definition of a "rock"
What is a solid object made of a mixture of minerals?
100
These are pure, solid objects found on and below the Earth's surface.
What are minerals?
100
This is a property of rocks and minerals that describes how something feels.
What is texture?
100
This is a rock that is sometimes crushed and used to make cement.
What is limestone?
100
These is a term used to describe melted rock that is still underground.
What is magma?
200
This is a very soft rock that one can easily draw with.
What is "chalk?"
200
This is a phrase that is sometimes used to describe minerals.
What are the building blocks of rocks?
200
These are three properties that are often used to describe rocks and minerals.
What is color, texture, and hardness?
200
This building material is made of sand and clay and often used to make buildings and walls.
What are bricks?
200
This is a term used to describe melted rock that is on the surface of the Earth.
What is lava?
300
These are rocks formed when molten magma or lava cools and solidifies.
What are igneous rocks?
300
This is the number of minerals found on Earth.
What is "about 3,000?"
300
This is what scientists call the mark left when a rock or mineral is rubbed onto another hard surface.
What is a "streak?"
300
These are examples of igneous rocks that were pictured in our textbook.
What are granite and basalt?
300
This is a shiny mineral often used to make pots and pans and sometimes electrical wire.
What is copper?
400
These are rocks that are formed when sand, mud, and pebbles are pressed and cemented together.
What are sedimentary rocks?
400
This is a soft mineral that is found and used to make pencils.
What is graphite?
400
This is the hardest mineral.
What is a diamond?
400
These are examples of sedimentary rocks that were pictured in our textbook.
What are limestone and siltstone?
400
This precious mineral can be yellow or white and is often used to make expensive jewelry.
What is gold and silver? (Platinum too)
500
These are rocks that started out as one rock and then completely changed into another rock due to intense heat and pressure.
What are metamorphic rocks?
500
This is a mineral that is eaten and also used on roads in winter.
What is "salt?"
500
This is the softest mineral.
What is talc?
500
These are examples of metamorphic rocks that were pictured in our textbook.
What are marble and gneiss?
500
True or False - minerals are alive.
False