1. Vocablualry
Experiments
Physical
Properties
Rocks/Ores
Miscellaneous
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2. A solid chemical matter formed by nature

3. What is a mineral?

4. A person who studies the earth

5. What is a geologist?

6. A solid mixture of one or more
different minerals

7. What is a rock?

8. A characteristic that can be observed

9. What is a physical property?

10. A useful metal found in rocks

11. What is an ore?

12. How you tell if a water sample
has salt in it?

13. What is pour the water into a dish and let it evaporate,
If there is salt there will be salt crystals left
In the dish

14. How you know if an unidentified rock
has calcite in it

15. What is place some acid/vinegar on it,
If it bubbles/fizzes calcite is present

16. Mineral #1 can be scratched by a fingernail and penny
Which one is harder?
Mineral #1 can be scratched by a fingernail and penny
Mineral #2 can be scratched by a penny and a paper clip

17. What is Mineral # 1 because the finger nail can scratch
It, and the fingernail is the softest tool

18. You can’t scratch Rock #1 or Rock #2
with any tools.
Which one is harder?

19. What is scratch one against the other. The one
Leaving the mark is the harder rock

20. The rocks you wouldn’t want to
build with and why

21. What is limestone and marble because
They have calcite in them and calcite
Mixes with the acid in the rain and
Destroys the buildings

22. On Moh’s Scale the mineral that is
The softest:
The Hardest:

23. What is talc and diamond?

24. Describes a mineral when it is shiny

25. What is luster?

26. Two ways to test a mineral for hardness

27. What is use a fingernail, a penny, A paper clip, or scratch them
against each other

28. The property being tested by Moh’s Scale

29. What is hardness?

30. Leaves a colored mark on a white tile

31. What is streak?

32. Metallic ores are found here

33. What is igneous rock?

34. Three products made from sulfur

35. What is paper, paint, medicine, plastic,
dyes, batteries, and fertilizers

36. Formed by heat and pressure
Name an example

37. What is metamorphic
marble, gneiss, slate

38. How sedimentary rock is formed
Example:

39. What is layers of sand, soil, sediment Cemented together
Conglomerate, shale, sandstone, limestone

40. Cooled quickly on the outside of a volcano
Example:

41. What is extrusive igneous rock
obsidian, basalt

42. A use for aluminum

43. What is pots/pans, foil, window
frames, zippers

44. Hot, molten liquid from the center
of the earth

45. What is magma?

46. Intrusive igneous rock
Example:

47. What is formed on the inside of
a volcano
granite

48. Because intrusive igneous
rock cools slowly

49. What is large crystals grow?

50. Shale changes to ________ Limestone changes to _______
Granite changes to ________

51. What is slate, marble, and gneiss?