6th Grade/ Rocks & Minerals

What type of rock is formed from the melting and cooling and hardening of hot liquid magma or lava?

• Igneous

• Metaphorphic

• Utomo

• Sedimentary

_________ rocks are formed from the compacting and cementing of layers of sediment.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

Circle the area where the lava will harden the fastest creating igneous rocks after it cools and harden.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

These type of rocks where already rock but they changed over time due to extreme heat and pressure.

• Sedimentary

• Metamorphic

• Igneous

• Kysoto

What is your favorite type of rock?

• Sedimentary

  i.e. Limestone

• Igneous

  i.e. Granite

• Metamorphic

  i.e. Marble

• I like them all equally.

What is the rock cycle?

• A way the earth creates new rocks and reuses old ones.

• A wresting move

• The time it takes the Earth to revolves around the Sun.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

A rock is a________.

• A mixture of random things, doesn't really matter what it is.

• A mixture of chemicals.

• A hard mixture of minerals that formed naturally.

Which of the follow pictures is most likely a igneous type rock.

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Are rocks and minerals important to our world?

• Y

• N

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

True or false?

A mineral is a naturally occurring solid within the Earth with a definite chemical composition and crystal structure.

• That's true.

• That's false.

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NGSS.MS-PS1-1