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Minerals
Minerals 2
Rocks
Rocks 2
Fossils
100
What is the first trait of a mineral?
It is solid.
100
What are the three ways to identify minerals?
Hardness, Color, and Streak.
100
The Earth is mostly made of: A. Sand B. Rocks C. Water
B. Rocks.
100
Which type of rock comes from a volcano?
Igneous rock.
100
What is a fossil?
The remains (or trace) of a living thing that died long ago.
200
What is the second trait of a mineral?
It was formed in nature.
200
True or False: Gypsum is a soft mineral.
True.
200
True or False: Rocks are naturally formed solids that are made of one or more types of rocks.
False! They're made of one or more types of minerals.
200
True or False: Sedimentary Rocks are really hot.
False. Metamorphic rocks are really hot.
200
What is it called when there is a mark in the mud?
An imprint.
300
True or False: Quartz is a very rare mineral.
False.
300
What are the four colors that quartz can be?
Purple, pink, clear, and black.
300
What are the Earth's three layers? (Bonus: You get a chip if you can name the layer that is made up of 2 parts!)
Crust, Mantle, Core *Core (Outer Core and Inner Core).
300
What is it called when rocks change from one kind of rock to another?
The rock cycle.
300
What is a cast?
The shape of a living thing left in a rock.
400
What is the third trait of a mineral?
It has never been alive.
400
True or False: Minerals only come in a few different colors.
False.
400
Which type of rock has layers?
Sedimentary Rock.
400
When a Sedimentary rock melts what type of rock does it turn into?
An Igneous rock.
400
True or False: The outline of a living thing left in a rock is a cast. If false, what is it?
A mold.
500
Name one way to use minerals.
1. To make jewelry (gold and diamond). 2. Graphite in your pencils. 3. Halite is salt for your food.
500
What is streak?
The color of the powder left behind by a mineral when it is rubbed against a tile.
500
Name the three types of rocks.
Igneous, Sedimentary, and Metamorphic.
500
What kind of rock do fossils form in?
Sedimentary rock.