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PERIOD: ____________
DATE: ______________
Worksheet to Accompany Eyewitness Video: Rocks and Minerals
Instructions: Fill in the following questions as you watch the video.
The answers occur in the same order as the questions. You must
listen and watch carefully to answer everything correctly!!
1. Fill in the flowchart:
Crystals
Rocks
2. F____________ provide evidence of some of the earliest life forms to
thrive on Earth.
3. The rock called f_________ can be used to make fire.
4. True or False (circle one): Stonehenge is an example of a megalith.
(HINT: mega = BIG and lith = ROCK.)
5. Magma explodes onto the Earth’s crust in v____________ eruptions.
6. Wind and blowing sand carved Monument Valley in Arizona via the
process of e_____________.
7. True or False (circle one): Rainwater, a weak acid, can dissolve a rock’s
surface.
8. The Grand Canyon was carved mainly by (circle one):
a. blowing wind.
b. a river.
c. blowing sand.
9. Melting and refreezing of water in cracks between rocks eventually
____________ the rock.
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10. True or False (circle one): The rock cycle recycles minerals through
different types of rocks.
11. Igneous rock draws it name from the Latin word for f______.
12. The most common igneous rock is g___________, a combination of
quartz, feldspar and mica.
13. The pyramids of Egypt are made of l____________.
14. Metamorphic means c____________.
15. The name Peter comes from the name petros, meaning r______.
16. As many as 19,000 m________________________, from apple-sized
to larger, bombard the Earth each year.
17. Gemstones always come from a single c_______________.
18. Parallel edges and parallel faces are the main characteristics of
c____________.
19. We shake salt c___________ on our food.
20. The hardest rock of all is the d______________.
21. True or False (circle one): Gold will not tarnish. (Tarnish means to get
black, darker, or less shiny.)
22. M_________, the liquid mineral, tells us the temperature.
23. G_________ fills our pencils.
24. S_________ makes our film.
25. Yes or No (circle one): Is every single MINERAL that you find going to
be a CRYSTAL?
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