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Bell Ringer 1-5-11
1. What does the phrase “definite chemical
composition” mean?
2. What characteristic of minerals does the
term luster describe?
3. Compare the fracture of quartz to the
fracture of a pure metal, such as iron.
4. Write a definition of “mineral” in your own
words.
Bell Ringer 1-6-11
1. What does it mean to say that a mineral
is inorganic?
2. Name eight properties that can be used
to identify minerals.
3. What is the difference between fracture
and cleavage?
4. How would you define “rock-forming
minerals”?
Bell Ringer 1-7-11
1. What does it mean to say that a rock is
coarse-grained?
2. What three characteristics do geologists
use to identify rocks?
3. What are the grains of a rock?
4. What are the three main groups of
rocks?
Bell Ringer 1-10-11
1. How do igneous rocks form?
2. What is silica?
3. What igneous rock is most often
used as building material?
4. How are igneous rocks classified?
Bell Ringer 1-11-11
1. What are extrusive rocks and intrusive
rocks?
2. What are two common uses of igneous
rocks?
3. What characteristics make igneous rocks
useful?
4. What is deposition?
Bell Ringer 1-12-11
1. How does coal form?
2. Why are sandstone and limestone useful
as building materials?
3. What is sediment?
4. What are the three main types of
sedimentary rock?
Bell Ringer 1-13-11
1. Which type of sedimentary rock forms
from the remains of living things?
Explain how this sedimentary rock forms.
2. What process cause deposits of rock salt
to form? What type of sedimentary rock
is rock salt?
3. What are some uses of sedimentary
rocks?
4. What is a foliated rock?
Bell Ringer 1-14-11
1. What characteristics of slate make it
useful?
2. What does metamorphic mean?
3. Where and under what conditions are
metamorphic rocks formed?
4. What characteristic of metamorphic
rocks do geologists use to classify them?
Bell Ringer 1-18-11
1. How does a foliated metamorphic rock
form?
2. What is the main use of metamorphic
rocks?
3. What effect do heat and pressure deep
inside Earth have on sandstone?
4. Write a definition of the rock cycle in your
own words.
Bell Ringer 1-19-11
1. What must happen in order for any rock in the
rock cycle to become a sedimentary rock?
2. How can the streak test be helpful in
identifying minerals?
3. What is the relationship between an igneous
rock’s texture and where it was formed?
4. Why can water pass easily through sandstone
but not through shale?
Bell Ringer 1-20-11
1. Describe how a rock can form by
evaporation. What type of rock is it?
2. How do the properties of a rock change
when it becomes a metamorphic rock?
3. What are two things that could happen to
a metamorphic rock to continue the rock
cycle?
4. How are clastic rocks and organic rocks
similar? How are they different?
Bell Ringer 1-21-11
Science Textbook
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Questions 17 – 20
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Bell Ringer 1-24-11
1. How are minerals different from rocks?
2. What are the characteristics of a
mineral?
3. On what basis do scientists classify
minerals?
4. What are the four common minerals?
Bell Ringer 1-25-11
1. What is the difference between color and
streak?
2. Why does a piece of gold weight more
than a piece of pyrite that is the same
size?
3. Why is color not a reliable clue to the
identity of a mineral?
4. What is the difference between cleavage
and fracture?
Bell Ringer 1-26-11
1. Give two examples of the use of minerals
in industry and two examples of the use
of minerals in the arts.
2. What are the five ways in which minerals
form?
3. Why aren’t all solids minerals?
4. Why is a mineral’s streak more useful in
identifying it than its color?
Bell Ringer 1-27-11
1. Why do people use rocks for many
different purposes?
2. What are the three rock types?
3. How are rocks and minerals different?
4. Which rock types are most common
within Earth’s crust?
Bell Ringer 1-28-11
1. What is the main difference between
intrusive and extrusive igneous rocks?
2. What are the two major properties used
to classify igneous rocks?
3. Why can intrusive igneous rocks be left
behind when surrounding rocks are worn
away?
4. What types of material can make up
sediment?
Bell Ringer 1-31-11
1. Describe the three processes by which
sedimentary rocks form.
2. Why is coal called a fossil fuel?
3. Give an example of a way people use
metamorphic rocks.
4. What are two reasons a metamorphic
rock might not show foliation?
Bell Ringer 2-1-11
1. What conditions can cause a sedimentary or
igneous rock to change into a metamorphic
rock?
2. How do new minerals grow within existing
rock?
3. Why do bands of minerals develop in most
metamorphic rocks?
4. Would you expect to find foliated or nonfoliated
metamorphic rocks net to a lave flow? Why?
Bell Ringer 2-2-11
1. What causes seismic waves?
2. What is the main type of rock in oceanic
crust?
3. What is the asthenosphere?
4. What is the main difference between the
outer core and the inner core?
Bell Ringer 2-3-11
1. Why is it difficult to determine Earth’s
inner structure?
2. How are seismic waves used to provide
evidence about Earth’s interior?
3. List Earth’s three main layers
4. What is the difference between the
lithosphere and the asthenosphere? In
which layer is each located?
Bell Ringer 2-4-11
1. Classify each of the following layers as
liquid, solid, or solid but able to flow
slowly: lithosphere, asthenosphere,
lower mantle, out core, inner core.
2. What is conduction?
3. What is the role of gravity in creating
convection currents?
4. What are the three types of heat
transfer?
Bell Ringer 2-7-11
1. How is heat transferred through
space?
2. What is a convection current?
3. Describe how convection currents
form.
4. Name two layers of Earth in which
convection currents take place.