What is small pieces of rocks, shells, and dead organisms.
100
Mineral A has a hardness score of 3.5
Mineral B has a hardness score of 4.5
Mineral C has a hardness score of 4
Which mineral is the hardest?
What is Mineral B.
100
Materials that are found on earth and used by people are known as __________
What natural resources.
100
Mineral A scratches Mineral B.
Which mineral is softer?
What is Mineral B.
200
The properties of a mineral depend on ________
What is the type of mineral.
200
The rock cycle describes how rocks
a. change over time
b. are formed
c. are broken down
d. all of the above
What is all of the above.
200
Mineral A has a hardness of 5.5
Mineral B has a hardness of 4.0
Mineral C has a hardness of 4.5
Will Mineral C scratch any of the others? Which ones?
What is Mineral C will scratch Mineral B.
200
Name the 3 types of rocks.
What igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic.
200
Define minerals.
What are non-living materials that are found naturally on earth.
300
Are these examples of properties of a mineral?
Where it was found
How much it costs
What is NO
300
How are igneous rocks formed?
What is from cooling magma.
300
When you are trying to figure out the identity of a mineral, should you look at the properties that are similar or the properties that are different? Why?
What is the properties that are different so that you can identify it.
300
Which statement is true?
a. rocks can break down into sediments
b. new rocks form over time
c. rocks can change from one type to another
d. all of the above
What is all of the above.
300
You are given 2 samples of shiny stones. One is a diamond and one is not a diamond. What is the one property you could test to find out which sample is the diamond?
What is hardness. The diamond will scratch the other sample.
400
How can rocks be used to find minerals?
What is Specific minerals are found in specific rocks. So if you are looking for a mineral and know what kind of rock it is found in, you can look for that type of rock.
400
How are sedimentary rocks formed?
What is small pieces of rocks, shells and dead organisms settle on top of each other and harden to form layers.
400
You find a stone and want to identify it. What are 2 property tests that you could run on it to help identify it?
What are hardness, color, streak color, cleavage, reaction to acid, luster, transparency, light refraction.
400
Explain how an igneous rock can become a metamorphic rock.
What is it could become deeply buried in the earth and change due to intense heat and pressure.
400
Name 5 mineral properties that could be tested.
What are color, transparency, luster, hardness, streak color, reaction to acid, light refraction, magnetism
500
You have 2 pieces of quartz. One piece is small (8 grams) and the other piece is much larger (70 grams). The hardness scale for the large piece is 7. What do you think the hardness scale would be for the smaller piece?
What is 7. The hardness of quartz in 7, regardless of the size of the sample.
500
How are metamorphic rocks formed?
What is from intense heat and pressure from deep within the Earth.
500
Explain why the properties of two different sized samples of the same mineral would be the same.
What is all minerals have properties, and the properties do not change with larger or smaller pieces of the mineral.
500
Which of the following are minerals?
silver
steel
glass
diamond