Rocks and Minerals

MINERALS

Hello minerologists! 

1. Click here to identify your unknown minerals for the “Missing Identities” activity.

2. Then, take a tour of your house here and find what minerals are found in each of the rooms.  Record your findings on your sheet.

3. Now, take the quiz.

 

 

ROCKS

Rocks are probably a familiar sight to you.  You see them all around you in various shapes, sizes, and colors.  Rocks are the building blocks of Earth.  They form beaches, mountains, the ocean floor, and all the other parts of the Earth’s crust.

To make sense of the enormous diversity of rocks in the world, scientists have organized them into three groups according to how they form:  igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary.

 

1.       How do sedimentary rocks form?  Click here to find out.

2.        Are you a rock hound?  Take this quiz!

3.        Stupid page of rocks….yes, that’s really the name of this            website.  Check it out!

4.        If Rocks Could Talk...what would they say?  Do this            quick activity to see if you can categorize these rocks.