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Fun Facts: TOAST Rocks
100
A nonliving solid that has a crystal form
What is a mineral.
100
salt, sugar, baking soda
What are examples of crystals?
100
A type of rock that forms from magma cooling
What is an igneous rock?
100
Marble
What is a type of metamorphic rock?
100
A person who studies rocks.
What is a geologist?
200
A scale in which you test how hard a mineral is based on if something can scratch it.
What is the hardness scale?
200
Crystals in caves are bigger
What is the difference in crystal shapes?
200
Granite
What is a type of igneous rock?
200
Houses and building material
What is the use of limestone?
200
A hammer
What is a tool a geologist may use?
300
When a mineral has smooth straight sides when broken.
What is cleavage?
300
They have some properties of solids.
What is true about crystals
300
Rock that is formed when sediment is cemented together.
What is sedimentary rock?
300
The cycle where rocks turn into another kind of rock, naturally.
What is the rock cycle?
300
The color that shows up when you rub a mineral against a plate
What is the streak color
400
When a mineral has rounded or rough sides when broken
What is a fracture?
400
An ordered repeated pattern of molecules
What is a crystal lattice?
400
Shale and sandstone
What is a type of sedimentary rock?
400
Bits of weathered rock.
What is sediment?
400
Igneous Rock
What is the most common type of rock
500
The test where you rub a mineral on a streak plate to determine its color.
What is a streak test?
500
Liquid
What is the form of crystals in electronics
500
A rock that is formed when the earth's pressure changes the mineral content of a rock.
What is a metamorphic rock?
500
The pieces of a once living thing usually found in a rock.
What is a fossil?
500
Purple shows lots of iron
What is something you can conclude about quartz