Instruction: Answer the following statements below.                 What is rock? What do you call to the branch of science that deals with studying rocks? How can you describe minerals? Why do minerals are so hard to find? How does rocks and minerals interrelated to each other? How can you find rocks composed of minerals? Give 3 reasons why minerals are important? Look at the image, are you familiar with it? Why do you think geologists like Friedrich Mohs believed that it is the hardest mineral? What are the essential characteristics of minerals? Give at least 3 and explain. How do we distinguish the chemical and physical composition of minerals? What are the primary mineral resources can be found in the Philippines? How do we classify rocks? Identify each and give at least 1 or 2 examples. What is the Mohs Hardness scale? How it can be used to compare minerals? Explain, what are the processes that bring about the rock cycle? How can we classify rocks from igneous? sedimentary? and metamorphic type?

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Instruction: Answer the following statements below.                 What is rock?
What do you call to the branch of science that deals with studying rocks?
How can you describe minerals?
Why do minerals are so hard to find? How does rocks and minerals interrelated to each other?
How can you find rocks composed of minerals?
Give 3 reasons why minerals are important?
Look at the image, are you familiar with it? Why do you think geologists like Friedrich Mohs believed that it is the hardest mineral?
What are the essential characteristics of minerals? Give at least 3 and explain.
How do we distinguish the chemical and physical composition of minerals?
What are the primary mineral resources can be found in the Philippines?
How do we classify rocks? Identify each and give at least 1 or 2 examples.
What is the Mohs Hardness scale? How it can be used to compare minerals?
Explain, what are the processes that bring about the rock cycle?
How can we classify rocks from igneous? sedimentary? and metamorphic type?

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