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Rocks and Minerals

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TermDefinition
Properties characteristics used to describe an object Including: color, luster, hardness and texture
Compaction and cementation the process of sediments being packed down and sticking together
Sedimentary rock forms when particles from other rocks or plant/ animal remains that are pressed and cemented together
Sediments loose materials such as rock fragments, mineral grains and bits of shell that have been moved by wind, water, ice or gravity
Metamorphic Rock forms from heat and pressure
Igneous Rock forms from melting and cooling of molten rock
Intrusive forms when magma rises up and cools inside the earth
Extrusive forms when lava cools on the earth’s surface
Weathering chemical and physical processes that break down rocks at earth’s surface
Rock Cycle series of processes that changes rock from one type into another
Erosion process by which rock are broken down and carried away
Mineral a solid inorganic substance of natural occurrence
Deposition process in which sediment is laid down in new locations
Hardness a mineral's resistance to being scratched
Composition what a substance is made of
Organic made of living matter
Inorganic not made of living matter
Geologist a person who studies rocks and minerals
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