Rocks and Minerals

Which is not a property of a mineral?

• luster

• hardness

• streak

• taste

What is the relationship between rocks and minerals?

• rocks are the same as minerals

• rocks are made up of one or more minerals

• minerals are made up of one or more rocks

• rocks are the opposite of minerals

Which is not a way to classify rocks?

• igneous

• underground

• sedimentary

• metamorphic

Where would you find an igneous rock?

• near a volcano

• in the ocean

• underground

• in a museum

How does metamorphic rock form?

• heat and pressure

• melting and cooling

• cementing sediment

• in a factory

How does igneous rock form?

• heat and pressure

• melting and cooling

• cementing layers of sediment

• in a factory

How does sedimentary rock form?

• heat and pressure

• melting and cooling

• cementing layers of sediment

• in a factory

In which type of rock would you find fossils?

• igneous

• metamorphic

• sedimentary

• the hard kind

What is the process that changes a rock from one form to another?

• earth cycle

• life cycle

• rock cycle

• mineral cycle

What do you call the remains of a once-living plant or animal?

• fossil

• gross

• mineral

• rock