Types of Rocks and Minerals
Types of Energy
Creation
Pros and Cons
Physical Properties
100
The building blocks of rocks.
Minerals
100
When a force acts upon another object to make it move.
What is mechanical energy?
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
Energy stored in the center of an atom.
What is nuclear energy?
200
Tells us energy can't be created or destroyed.
What is the Law of Conservation of Energy?
200
When dangerous materials are spilled around mines, for example, into rivers.
What is environmental poisoning?
200
How easy it is to scratch a rock.
What is hardness?
300
Rocks formed by the heating and cooling of lava and magma.
Igneous rock?
300
Energy created by the movement of particles.
What is heat/thermal energy?
300
The collection of rocks at the bottom of rivers to collect minerals.
What is panning?
300
A way to measure how much energy we consume.
What is an ecological footprint?
300
The use of energy.
What is dissipation?
400
Rocks formed when other rocks are exposed to high temperature and pressure.
What are metamorphic rocks?
400
When an object is moving, it uses this type of energy.
What is kinetic energy?
400
Energy that comes from a source that cannot be replaced.
What is non-renewable energy?
400
Examples can include:
- Using less water
- Using a bicycle or public transportation
- Turning off electrical devices when not in use
What is the conservation of energy?
400
The colour a mineral makes when it is crushed into a powder.
What is streak?
500
The hardest mineral.
What is a diamond?
500
An object is rolled down a hill. Where does it have the most potential energy?
The top of the hill.
500
The footprints left behind by animals and dinosaurs.
What are trace fossils?
Cast fossils - The imprint of actual animals or shells.
Mold fossils - After an animal dies, it leaves behind a hole that is filled with sediment.
True Form fossils - The actual animal has been preserved.
500
Burning fossil fuels contributes to this when gases are released.
What is climate change?
500
The hardness level of this rock (Talc):
1