Chapter 6 - Lesson 1

Question 1

What is a solid, nonliving thing found in nature?

Answer 1

A Mineral

Question 2

Where are minerals found?

Answer 2

In the ground and in the ocean

Question 3

Name examples of minerals

Answer 3

Table salt, diamond and gold

Question 4

How can you tell minerals apart?

Answer 4

by it’s properties

Question 5

Name properties of minerals

Answer 5

1. color
2. hardness
3. luster
4. streak

Question 6

What is streak?

Answer 6

the color that remains when a mineral is rubbed on a tile. The Streak may be a different color than the mineral.

Question 7

What is luster?

Answer 7

Tells us how light bounces off a mineral. Some minerals have a shiny luster.

Question 8

What is hardness?

Answer 8

describes how easily a mineral can be scratched. some minerals are soft and can be scratched with a fingernail. Some are hard like a diamond.

Question 9

What are rocks?

Answer 9

they are non living things made of minerals

Question 10

What are the 3 main group of rocks?

Answer 10

1. forms from tiny pieces of rocks
2. changes from one type of rock into another
3. forms from melted rock

Question 11

When melted rock cools and hardens, it makes

Answer 11

igneous rock

Question 12

Melted rock that flows onto Earth’s surface is

Answer 12

lava

Question 13

Melted rock inside Earth is called

Answer 13

magma

Question 14

Tiny pieces of rock and small bits of dead organisms are called

Answer 14

sediment

Question 15

A ______ rock has been changed by heating and squeezing.

Answer 15

metamorphic

Question 16

Sediment piles up at the bottom of

Answer 16

rivers, lakes and oceans

Question 17

Most of the metals we use come from

Answer 17

minerals (wires, aluminum baseball bats, pencils)

Question 18

___ is a rock we burn for heat

Answer 18

Coal

Question 19

_____ is a rock that can be carved into statues

Answer 19

Marble