Types of Rocks and Minerals
Ancient Rocks
Creation
Pros and Cons
Physical Properties
100
The building blocks of rocks.
Minerals
100
Preserved remains of plants or animals.
What are fossils?
100
This describes how rocks are formed, broken apart, and reformed.
What is the rock cycle?
100
How we get the resources to make things like pop cans, the chips in our phones, and other minerals to build things.
What is mining?
Open pit, underground, panning
100
How easily light can pass through an object.
What is transparency?
200
Rocks formed by the layering of mud, sand, and pebbles.
What are sedimentary rocks?
200
The footprints left behind by animals and dinosaurs.
What are trace fossils?
200
The collection of rocks and minerals from the surface of the Earth.
What is open-pit mining?
200
When dangerous materials are spilled around mines, for example, into rivers.
What is environmental poisoning?
200
The colour of a mineral when it is crushed into a powder.
What is streak?
300
Rocks formed by the heating and cooling of lava and magma.
What are igneous rocks?
300
The imprint of actual animals or shells.
What are cast fossils?
300
Deep holes and tunnels in the earth.
What is underground mining?
300
A type of white mineral teachers often use at school.
What is chalk?
300
How shiny an object is.
What is lustre?
400
Rocks formed when other rocks are exposed to high temperature and pressure.
What are metamorphic rocks?
400
An actual animal that has been preserved.
What is a true form fossil?
400
The collection of rocks at the bottom of rivers to collect minerals.
What is panning?
400
What we call someone who studies fossils.
What is a paleontologist?
400
How easy it is to scratch a rock.
What is hardness?
500
The hardest mineral.
What is a diamond?
500
A hole that has been filled with sediment after an animal died.
What are mold fossils?
500
Bits of rocky material that settle at the bottom of the ocean.
What are sediments?
500
Burning fossil fuels contributes to this when gases are released.
What is climate change?
500
The hardness level of this rock (Talc):
1