Show What You Know About Rocks and Minerals

What is a rock made up from?

• A rock is made of three or more minerals.

• A rock is made up of one mineral.

• A rock is made up of no minerals.

• A rock is made up of two or more minerals.

What is a mineral?

• A mineral is made up of rocks.

• A mineral is an inorganic material found in the Earth.

• A mineral is hard.

• A mineral is shiny and smooth.

Check all boxes that are properties that can be used to classify (sort) rocks and minerals.

• colour

• hardness

• transparency

• texture

Check the boxes that are examples of rocks?

• quartz

• obsidian

• talc

• granite

• pyrite

Check all the boxes that are examples of minerals.

• diamond

• geodes

• tourmaline

• ruby

• marble

How many types of rocks are there?

• 2

• 3

• 4

• 5

What is an igneous rock?

• A rock that is formed in layers and clusters.

• Melted lava found underground.

• A rock that is made when hot magma cools and hardens.

• A rock that contains records of the history of the world (prints of plants and animals).

What type of rock is formed in layers?

• metamorphic

• sedimentary

• igneous

• rock cycle

Choose true or false. The hardest substance found in nature , with a hardness of 10 on the Moh's Hardness Scale is talc.

• True

• False

Choose true or false. A property of minerals that is related to how light passes through them is opaque.

• True

• False