mrs. bassett’s 3 rd grade rocks. mica amber simpson
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Mrs. Bassett’s 3rd Grade
ROCKS
Mica
Amber Simpson
What does mica look like?
• shiny changes into dull
• Colors are black, brown, green, red, pinkish, and yellow
Where can Mica be found?
• It is found in India and China
How do we use Mica?
• Insulation• Electricity equipment• adds a silky luster to
wallpaper
information
• Mica-Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
Hornblende
Austin J . Smith
What Does It Look Like?
It is black.
Where can it be found?
• United states,caloforna
How do we use it?
we use hornblende for
Cement.
Microcline
Braden Ray
What it looks like
It looks dull
And the color is white or it is green
Where can it be found?
Devils Hole Beryl Mine, Colorado, US
How do we use microcline?
• Glass products stone
• Enamel
Where do you get your information?
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcline
Hematite
CALEB MCCOLLUM
What it looks like
• It is red, brick red.• You can not see
through it.• It is bright red.• Dark red.• Cleavage, none.
Were can we find it
• We can find some on mars.
• In Yellow stone National Park.
• At a bottom of a lake.
How do we use it
• In jewelry and other things people wear.
Where I found my info
• At Wikipedia.
Coal
By. Chandrea Vaughn
Where Can Coal Be Found?
USA
Crownnest,Mountain
Cascade,Highwood
How Do We Use Coal?
• To grill• Electricity• Cement
Calcite
Gracie Brown
What does it look like?
• clear, white, yellow • brown, black, gray• Glassy, dull, green• Blue
Where it can be found
• Mexico• iceland
The uses
• In a marble• In a watch
Kaolinte
By Hunter Yearwood
What does it look like
• It looks brown• Kaolinte looks broken• Kaolint looks luster• Kaolinte is gray
Where can it be found
• Germany• Australia• Korea• China• unitedStates
How do we use it
• Ceramics• Medicine• Coatedpaper• Foodadditive• Toothpaste• Light• Bulbs • Cosmetics• Porcelain
Where did I get my (resources ) information
• Wikipeeiaorg
Beryl
Jared Chambers
What does it look like?
• Orange• You can’t see through • Rough• lumpy• dull
Where can it be found?
• Australia• California
How can Beryl be used
• To make jewelry
Where did I find it?
• At http://www.enwikipedia.com
Talc
By Jeanna Legier
What it looks like?
• White, plain, dull• Hardness number .1.• It’s bumpy, can’t see• through • lutster. vitneous-
pearly, and greasy
Where can it be found?
• It’s found in North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and Germany
What are it’s uses?
• It’s in:• Baby powder,• Floor wax• Leather treatment• Shoe polish• Printing ink• Foam/Rubber
Where did I get my information
• www.maricopa
• www.golcha.com
• And wikipedia.com
Quartz
Kierra Britt
What it looks like
• It looks like glass• and you can see• in it.
Were can it be found
• You can find it • in the surfa of
eath
How do you use quartz
• It can be use it• in joler
Were did I find my info
Wicapetea.org
Feldspar
Riley McGeachy
What it looks like
• Cream pink ,green or black
• Glassy and dull• You can see threw it
Where it can be found
• Canada• Pennsylvania
How we use it
• dinnerware• bathroom tiles• and building tiles•
Where I found my information
• http://www.nuk.org/minerals/photofelds.html
• http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=earth/geology/min_feldspar.html
Gypsum
Sabrina Baxter
What it looks like
• Colorless-white• Silky and pearly• waxy
Where can it be found?
• Brazil• New York• Utah
What are the uses?
• Drywall• Plaster• Plaster of Paris• Chalk• Fertilizer• Tofu
Where did I get my information?
• http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&safe=strict&um=1&q=utah&sa=N&start=20&ndsp=20
• www.wikipedia.com
Halite
Skyler Luna
What Does it look like
• Its many colors• Its Bumpy• Its glassy• Its hard
Were Can it be found
• In the Ocean• Most lakes
How do we use it
• It melts the snow• It melts the glassy ice
My Information
www.google.com/images
http://www.mindat.org/
Corundum
Tanner Collins
What does it look like?
white
Black
Dull
Rough
Streak
Lumpy
You can’t see through it.
Where can it be found?
• United stats• china
How do you use it?
Where did I find it
Galena
Thomas Hannah
What it looks like
gray silver black green hard dull blue
Where can it be found?
• United states • Germany• Paris• China
How can you use it?
• As a toothpaste
As wood
Where I found the information
• I found my information at rock.com
What it looks like
• Black, hard, ,soft and dull metallic shiny it looks like Its breaking off. And straight rock.
Where Can It Can Be Found
Mexckgo,fiordia alska east amercia,
How do we use it
• by.sekring,to see,if, its hard or soft or coler
Where did I find the information
•http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrite
Lodestone
Dalton Meacham
What it looks like
• Rely hard
• Is clear• Roght
Where can we find it
• China• Texes
How we use it
• Not to start fiars
Where I found my information
Apatite
Elisabeth Bode
What does it look like?
• It comes in mostly green
• It is smooth• It’s slick
Where can it be found?
• Idaho • Tennessee• Wyoming• North Africa• Russia
How do we use it?
• It can use it for jewelry
• Tooth paste
Where did I get my resources?
• I got some resources from a book called dig in to rocks
• http://www.rocksforkids.com/R&M/apatite.htm
Fluorite
BY Ethan Hawkins
Where can it be found?
• Pointe kurz• England• And Mexico
How do we use it?
• Steel• Glass• Lenses• Tooth paste• And telescopes
What does it look like?
• Red orange• White,• Blue,• Purple,• Green,• Yellow,• Pink or red• Clear• Hardness is 4.0• shiny
Where I got my information
• www. Web mineral data