Minerals and Rocks

a solid material made up of one or more minerals.

• rock

• crystal

• mineral

• smelting

a nonliving solid material that has a definite chemical makeup, a crystal shape, is naturally occurring and is inorganic

• rock

• mineral

• smelting

• nonrenewable

the continuous series

of changes that rocks

undergo

• Nonrenewable resource

• mineral

• rock cycle

• rock

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

rock that forms when melted, or molten, rock from deep below the Earth's surface cools and hardens.

• metamorphic rock

• sedimentary rock

• igneous rock

new rock that forms when existing rocks are changed by heat, pressure, or chemicals beneath Earth's surface.

• igneous rock

• sedimentary rock

• metamorphic rock

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

rock that forms when sand, particles of rock, bits of soil, and bits of once-living things are pressed together and harden.

• igneous rock

• sedimentary rock

• metamorphic rock

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Sand, particles of rock, bits of soil and remains of once-living things.

• sediment

• rock cycle

• ore

• smelting

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

A solid, in which the atoms are arranged in an orderly, repeated pattern.

• ore

• smelting

• crystal

• sediment

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-1

A natural resource that is not replaced in a useful time frame.

• smelting

• ore

• sediment

• nonrenewable resource

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

Useful metallic mineral that can be mined at a profit

• ore

• crystal

• sediment

• mineral

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-1