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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Mineral | naturally occurring substance that is solid |
| Luster | the state or quality of shining by reflecting light; glitter, sparkle, sheen, or gloss |
| Streak | Streak is the color of a mineral when it is crushed to a powder |
| Cleavage | the tendency of crystals, certain minerals, rocks, etc., to break in preferred directions so as to yield more or less smooth surfaces |
| Fracture | the cracking or breaking of a hard object or material. |
| Hardness | the quality or condition of being hard. |
| Density | the degree of compactness of a substance. |
| Rock | the solid mineral material forming part of the surface of the earth and other similar planets |
| Rock Cycle | an idealized cycle of processes undergone by rocks in the earth's crust |
| Weathering | The process by which rocks are broken down into small grains and soil |
| Erosion | the action of exogenic processes (water or wind) which remove soil and rock from another rock |
| Deposition | the geological process in which sediments, soil and rocks are added to a landform or land mass. |
| Sedimentary Rock | types of rock that are formed by the deposition of material at the Earth's surface and in bodies of water |
| Igneous Rock | formed through the cooling and solidification of magma or lava. |
| Metamorphic Rock | was once one form of rock but has changed to another under the influence of heat, pressure, or some other agent without passing through a liquid phase |
| Foliated | consisting of thin sheets or laminae. |
| Nonfoliated | not slate, schist or gneiss |
| Relative Dating | to determine the age of geological events. |
| Superposition | |
| Absolute Dating | |
| Radiometric Dating | |
| Half-Life | |
| Fossil | |
| Geologic Time Scale | |
| Crust | |
| Mantle | |
| Core Plate Tectonics | |
| Convergent Boundary | |
| Divergent Boundary | |
| Transform Boundary | |
| Folding | |
| Fault | be broken by a fault or faults |