1.

Answer these questions:

a) What is the difference between rocks and minerals?

The main difference is that rocks are made of one or more minerals plus
organic matter or remains but minerals are inorganic solids.

b) Write four properties of minerals

- Colour
- Hardness
- Lustre
- Crystal form (some of them).

3.
a) A volcano forms when the tectonic plates _ bump
together._(move up and down/bump together.)
b) Volcanoes can be very _ dangerous_(quiet/dangerous) when they
erupt.

crater

magma chimney
 lava
c) Lava can be as hot as _1000 ºC._(1000 ºC/50 ºC).
d) Pressure and heat forces magma to come up. (magma to
come up/go under.)
e) Magma becomes lava in an _an eruption._(earthquake/an
eruption.)

4. Classify these rocks or minerals?

Copper Mica Basalt Diamond Granite Marble

Chalk Slate

ROCKS MINERALS

Basalt Copper

Granite Mica

Marble Diamond

Slate Chalk

5. Write the definition of: What things can you say about them?

a)Lithosphere:
- All the rocks and minerals on the Earth´s crust and upper mantle.
- It is always moving.
- It is made up of Tectonic Plates

b)Tectonic Plates:
-They are plates we can find under the Lithosphere.
-They are also huge areas that made the Continents.
-We can find them under water too.
-They are always moving and sometimes they bump into one
another: earthquakes (on land), tsunami (under water).