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Rock and Mineral’s Scavenger Hunt – Grade 4 Science

How are igneous rocks formed? [|http://www.fi.edu/fellows/fellow1/oct98/create/igneous.htm]

What is “chemical” weathering? [|http://www.oum.ox.ac.uk/thezone/rocks/cycle/stage1.htm]

Name and give a description of a mineral that is an 8 on Moh’s Hardness Scale [|http://library.thinkquest.org/J002289/mohs.html]

What are the most important characteristics that geologists look at? []

What kind of luster do most minerals have? [|http://www.oum.ox.ac.uk/thezone/minerals/detect/lustre.htm]

What happens when the skeleton of a fossil dissolves? [|http://www.oum.ox.ac.uk/thezone/fossils/intro/form.htm]

Metamorphic rocks are recognized by (4 points) [|http://mineralogy4kids.org/rkcycle/typeofrock.html]

What is a ‘wind cave’ made of? [|http://www.goodearthgraphics.com/virtcave/erosional_caves/erosional.html]

What are ‘cobbles’? []

What is the chorus of the Rock Cycle Karaoke song? http://studyjams.scholastic.com/studyjams/jams/science/rocks-­‐minerals-­‐ landforms/sedimentary-­‐rocks.htm