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classifying rocks1

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cleavage   a minerals ability to split easily along flat surfaces  
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fracture   the way a mineral looks when it breaks  
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streak   the color of a minerals powder  
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luster   the term that describes how a mineral reflects light from its surface  
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mohs hardness scale   It ranks ten minerals from softest to hardest  
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Crystal   A solid with flat sides that meet at Sharp edges and corners  
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Element   A substance composed of a single kind of atom  
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Flourescence   A minerals ability to glow under ultraviolet  
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Geode   A rounded, hollow rock that is often lined with crystals  
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Crystallization   The process by which atoms are arranged to form a material with a Crystal structure  
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Solid   A substance that keeps its shape because it's particles can't flow freely  
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Solution   A mixture in which one substance dissolves in another  
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Vein   Where minerals from a narrow channel or slab in the rock  
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Inorganic   Because minerals do not come from living things, they are not regular  
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Metamorphic rock   When an existing rock is changed by heart, pressure, or chemical reactions  
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Igneous rock   Forms from the cooling of molten rock  
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Sedimentary rock   When particles of other rocks or the remains of plants and animals are cemented together  
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Texture   The look and feel of the rocks surface  
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Banded   Grains of different colors  
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Non-banded   Grains that occur randomly  
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Coarse-Grained   Magma cools slowly  
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Fine-Grained   lava cools rapidly  
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Exstrusive   Igneous rock formed from lava that erupted onto earth surface  
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Intrusive   Igneous rock formed from magma below earth surface  
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Porphyry   A rock with large crystals  
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Erosion   Water or wind loosen and carry away fragments of rock  
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Deposition   Sediments settle out of water or wind  
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Compaction   Sediments are pressed together in layers  
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Comentation   Dissolved minerals glue glue sediments together  
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Chemical rock   When minerals that are dissolved in a solution crystallize  
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Organic rock   Forms where the remains of plants and animals are deposited in thick layers  
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Folitated   Metamorphic rocks that have grains arranged parallel layers or bands  
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Non-Folitated    
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