Minerals and Rocks

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What are minerals?

Minearals are nonliving, natural substances that make up rock.

How can minerals be idntified?

Minerals can be identified by their properties.

Name the properties of minerals.

Color, hardness, luster, and streak.

What are minerals the building blocks of?

They are the building blocks of rocks.

What is an igneous rock?

A rock that forms from melted rock.

What is melted rock called?

magma

How are igneous rocks classified?

by how quickly they cool and the size of the mineral grains that form.

How is sedimentary rock formed?

By layers of substances that are pressed and cemented together.

How do scientists find a rock's relative age?

By comparing the position of layered rocks.

A rock ____ and any __ in that rock have the same relative age.

layer fosils

What do minerals offer clues to?

to how a rock forms.

Name a natural, nonliving substance that makes up rock

mineral

What kinds of rocks form from melted rock?

igneous

What type of rocks form from sediments that are pressed and cemented together?

sedimentary

What is the age of one thing compared to another?

relative age

Name the rocks fromed from other rocks by extreme heat and pressure.

metamorphic

What does the rock cycle show?

This cycle shows how all rocks are related to one antoher.

What are materials from Earth that have useful properties.

resources

Granite and pumice are examples of teh uses of this type of rocks.

Igneous rocks

limestone and shale ar examples of uses of this tyype of rock.

sedimentary rock

Slate and marble are examples of uses of this type of rock.

metamorphic rock

Name the the building blocks of rocks?

minerals

Name the three ways that rocks are classified.

igneous, sedimentary, or metamorphic

What happens in the rock cycle?

1. weathering and erosion breaks the rocks into sediments.2. the sediments get deposited somewhere else. 3.Rocks melt and cool to form ign

Which prperty of a mineral does the Mohs' scale measure?

Hardness

Name two metamorphic rocks?

gneiss and marble