1. Earth Rocks Science & Minerals GRANITE

2. The contents of rocks What are rocks made of? One or more Minerals

3. What are mineral? Minerals are natural, non-living solid crystals that make up rocks.

4. Granite Granite is one of the most common rocks in the world.

5. What 3 minerals? What is the rock, granite, made of? Quartz Feldspar Mica

6. What 3 minerals? What is the rock, granite, made of? Quartz Quartz is one of the most common minerals in Earth’s crust.

7. What 3 minerals? What is the rock, granite, made of? Feldspar Potassium feldspars contains potassium. Feldspar crystals are stubby prisms, often pink to white.

8. What 3 minerals? What is the rock, granite, made of? Mica All micas form flat, book-like crystals that peal apart into individual sheets on cleavage planes. Crystals cleave into smooth flakes. Mica is so soft that you can scratch it with a fingernail.cleavage

9. A property of minerals What is cleavage? Mica The tendency of a mineral to break along weak planes.

10. Granite What thinking map can we use to illustrate granite and the minerals it’s made of? Mica pink granite Lizard on gray granite