This was created to meet the curriculum outcomes in New Brunswick's Grade 6 Science Space unit.

2. Rocks Minerals
Rock
Families
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Rocks
Left Overs
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Mineral
ID

3. What is a rock?

4. What is magma?

5. What is lava?

6. What is a parent
rock?

7. What type of
Igneous rock
forms the largest
crystals?

8. How many
different minerals
are there?

9. What is a mineral?

11. Name and identify
the four minerals
in granite?

12. What are the four
kinds of lustre?

13. Name any 7 minerals?

14. Who invented the
mineral hardness
scale?

15. What is a streak?

16. What is the
difference between
cleavage and
fracture?

17. Give one example
of a mineral that
cleaves and one
that fractures.

18. What are six
properties that can
be used to identify
minerals?

19. What are the three
rock families?

20. What are sediments?

21. What is a bed?

22. Give three examples
of Metamorphic
rock?

23. Name the three rock
families and give two
examples of each?

24. What rock is made
of mica, feldspar
hornblende, and
quartz?

25. What 3 things are
needed to create a
metamorphic rock?

26. What is the
difference between
an intrusive and an
extrusive rock?

28. What are the parent
rocks of the
following:
quartzite, marble
gneiss, and slate ?

29. Give 4 examples of
Igneous rock.

30. What are the four
Eras of geologic
time?

31. What is the geologic
time scale?

32. What technique do
scientists use to
date rocks?

33. Give one example of
an intrusive rock
and one example of
an extrusive rock.

34. Explain the
Rock cycle.

36. What is the first
computer generated
animated movie?

37. What University
did Miss Carroll
attend?

38. What city does
Batman protect?