1. Rocks and Minerals

2. What are the layers of the geosphere?
Core, mantle, crust

3. Which layers of the geosphere make up the lithosphere?
Crust and outer layer of the mantle

4. Materials that make up Earth’s crust and mantle
What are rocks?
Materials that make up Earth’s crust and mantle

5. Natural, solid substances that make up rocks
What are minerals?
Natural, solid substances that make up rocks

6. What three characteristics distinguish rocks?
Composition, texture, and appearance in nature

7. What are the 5 physical properties of minerals?
Shape, luster, color and streak, hardness, and density

8. Question and Answer Samples and Techniques
Mined Substances
Question and Answer
Samples and Techniques

9. What are deposits?
Areas of the crust where there are rocks, minerals and other useful substances

10. What are the three ways to mine substances?
Quarries/open pit mines, underground mines, and drilling

11. Are open pit mines deep underground or near the surface?

12. Are underground mines deep or near the surface?
Deep underground

13. When a deep hole is made to extract substances
What is drilling?
When a deep hole is made to extract substances