vocabularyrachel Word Scramble
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Mineral | is a crystal structure, naturally occurring solid that does not come from a living thing but has a definite chemical. composition. |
Inorganic | is something that can not be made up of a living thing such as plants,animals, insects, ect. |
What is a mineral? | A mineral is a crystal structure, naturally occurring solid that does not come from a living thing but has a definite chemical composition. |
streak | is a mineral rubbing agianst somthing such as glass, tile, ect to see the color of its powder. |
Luster | is used to describe how light reflects from the surface of a mineral. |
Cleavage | is a the way a mineral breaks/splits easily along a flat surface. |
Fracture | is the look or shape of witch a mineral breaks apart. |
Mohs hardness scale | is how geologists figure out the hardness of a rock on the |
granite | A usually light colored igneous rock in continental crust |
Basalt | A dark dense igneous rock with a fine texture found in ocean crust. |
Texture | The look and feel of a rocks surface determined by the size, shape and pattern of a rocks grains. |
Igneous Rock | A type of rock that forms from the cooling of molten rock at or below the surface. |
Sedimentary Rock | A type of rock that forms from particles from other rocks or the remains of plants and animals are pressed and cemented together. |
Metamorphic Rocks | A type of rock that forms from an existings, that is changed by heat, pressure or chemical reactions. |
Extrusive | Igneous rocks that forms from lava on Earth's surface. |
Intrusive | Igneous rocks that forms when magma hardens beneath Earth's surface. |
Sediment | Small, solid pieces of material that comes from rocks or organisms, Earth's materials decomposing by erosion. |
Erosion | The process by which water, ice, wind, or gravity moves weather rocks or soil. |
Decomposition | The process by which sediment is laid down in new locations. |
Compaction | The process by which sediments are pressed together under their own weight. |
Grains | The particles of minerals or other rocks that give a rock its texture. |
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