Directions for the flip books: You have two flip books. One is titled Rocks and the other is Minerals. There are 5 pages in each flip book printed on 2 regular sheets of paper. I cannot post the flip book due to the copyright, but I can post the answers for you. Please cut out the pages and staple them together on the left side. (Do not cut out the tiny rectangles on the left of 4 of the pages as that is the space where you staple them all together.)
Answers:
Minerals KEY 1. What do you call someone who studies rocks & minerals? _geologists_ 2. A __mineral__ is a nonliving solid material with a definite chemical makeup. 3. What are 6 properties that geologist use to describe and identify minerals? ___texture, color, luster, streak, cleavage, and hardness_____________ ________________________________________________________ 4. Which property tells the way a mineral shines or reflects light? luster_ 5. What is the softest mineral? ___talc____ 6. What mineral has a rating of 7 on the Mohs Scale? ___quartz________ 7. Name two items that can be used to perform a scratch test on a mineral. Any two: fingernail, penny, steel nail, glass
Rocks KEY 1. A ____rock__ is a solid material found in the Earth’s crust that is made up of 1 or more minerals 2. All __minerals__ are rocks, but not all rocks are minerals. 3. What are the three types of rocks? Igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic _________________________________________________________ 4. What type of rock forms underwater and in layers? ___sedimentary__ 5. Metamorphic rocks are rocks that have been changed by ___time___, ______heat_______, and _______pressure____. 6. Granite and basalt are two examples of ____igneous_____ rocks. 7. What type of rock are most fossils found in? _____sedimentary____
Just a reminder that I will allow retakes of the rocks and minerals end of unit test if the students do not get their desired grade as this is our first end of unit test.