Rocks and minerals

Friedrich Mohs became interested in

• Jewellery

• Diamonds and rocks

• Minerals

• The water cycle

What does a mineralogist study?

• Properties of mines

• properties of minerals

• Properties of gold

• Properties of plants

What is a diamond?

• A mineral

• A rock

Minerals are made up of rocks.

• True

• False

what are the three types of rocks?

• Igneous, magma and sedimentary.

• Igneous, conglomerate and sedimentary.

• Minerals, sedimentary and metamorphic.

• Igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic.

The Earth is made of three layers.

• True

• False

The crust is the internal layer.

• True

• False

The crust is the external layer.

• True

• False

The three layers are:

• Crust, marble and core.

• Crust, mantle and clay.

• Crust, mantle and core.

• Crust, magma and core.

Igneous rocks are formed when:

• The suffer extreme heat and pressure.

• Volcanoes erupt and the magma or lava cools down and solidifies.