Enter to go on a geological dig tolearn about rocks and minerals

Mrs. Stephens

turquoise sulfur

Quartz

Table of Contents• Welcome Page• Title Page• Table of Contents• Minerals Chart• Organizational Chart• Rocks Chart• Rock Cycle

– Metamorphic– Sedimentary– Igneous

• Many Types of Rocks and Minerals• Hardness of Minerals Bar Chart• Hardness of Minerals Pie Chart• Rocks and Minerals Video Clip• Resources• Crystal Activity• Stalactites Activity

MINERALSNAME EXAMPLE CHARACTERISTICS USES

Gold • metallic and shiny

• soft mineral

• jewelry

diamond • hardest mineral• hard enough to cut steel

• jewelry

quartz • almost as hard as diamonds• common mineral

• to make glass

Organizational Chart

How Heavy

How Shiny

OtherProperties

Color

Texture

Basic Propertiesof Minerals

rocksTypes Example Characteristics Uses

Metamorphic

Rock

• rock that has been change by heat and pressure

• make statues• jewelry

IgneousRock

• rock that was once melted but has cooled and hardened

• building materials•computer chip

Sedimentary

Rock

• forms from material that has settled into layers

• building materials•computer chip

Marble

Pumice

Limestone

Rock cycleMetamorphic Rocks:

Marble

Quartzite

Slate Sedimentary Rocks:LimestoneBrecciaRed sandstone

Igneous Rocks:ObsidianPumice

Snowflake porphyry

Wind and water canbreak up metamorphic rocks to form sedimentary rocks.

When sedimentary rocks areput under heat and pressure,metamorphic rocks can form.

Wind and water canbreak up igneous rocks to form sedimentary rocks.

Sedimentary rocksmelt to form igneous rocks.

Heat and pressurecan change igneousrocks intometamorphic rocks.

When metamorphicrocks melt, they formigneous rocks.

Many types ofrock and minerals

Hardness of Minerals

4

7

1

10

2

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

Nickel Quartz Talc Diamond Copper

Hardness is one of the properties of minerals. It is measured on a scale of 1 to 10:1 = softest10 = hardest

Hardness of Minerals

4

7

1

10

2Nickel

Quartz

Talc

Diamond

Copper

Rocks and Mineralsvideo clip

Resources

How to make Crystals

Stalactites andstalagmites

AdditionalResources

• http://www.msha.gov/KIDS/MRHP.htm

• http://192.107.108.56/portfolios/c/cafarella_a/final/

• http://www.bcschools.net/maser/esgeo.html