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A mineral is a naturally formed__________ substance and it was not formed from any_______ things   A mineral is a naturally formed SOILD substance and it was not formed from any LIVING things  
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What do we call a mineral ability to resist being scratches its______   hardness  
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Who was Friedrich Mohs and what did he develop to help study the Hardness of mineral____   Moh Hardness scall  
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what is the softest mineral__________ what is the herd its mineral____________   Talc softest. dimound. hardest  
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Why can' t you indemnity a mineral by color alone __________   because of different minerals is all different color.  
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A mineral______ describes how it reflects light from its surface.   Luster  
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The way the atoms or inron of a mineral are arranged in certain patterns will result in unnique ______ shape for the mineral.   Indast  
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Minerals breaks according to how thier atoms are arrangd. If the mineral breaks along a flat surface we call this______ and if i doesn't we call this_______ would a gemm cutter use cleavges or fracture to remove the flaws from a dimound or sapphire and tu   Minerals breaks according to how thier atoms are arrangd. If the mineral breaks along a flat surface we call this CLEVEGE and if i doesn't we call this FRACTURE would a gemm cutter use cleavges or fracture to remove the flaws from a dimound or sapphire an  
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What mineral has often been mistake for gold, "fools gold'   Pyrite  
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What do we call solid eath materials that are formed from a mixture of minerals and sometimes outer materials   Mirals  
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what are the three types of rocks   Igneous, sedimentary, metamorphic  
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Earth crust is made up of   Rock  
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Geologist classify rocks based on their texture, mineral composition and   Grain  
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What are rock made of   Different type of minerals  
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Why can't rock be identified by color alone?   Because it does inti  
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What is the rock and feel of a rock surface called   Texture  
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there are 3 parts to a rock texture   Grain size, grain shape and Grain pattern  
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Geologist classify rock into 3 major groups. What are the 3 groups   Igneous, sedimentary, metamorphic  
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There are 20 mineral that makes up most of the rock of earth crust. These know as rock-   Forming  
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Igneous rock is any rock that forms from   benth of benth the earth  
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Igneous rock that has formed from lava that erupted onto earth's surface is called _________ rock   Extueve  
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Ignoes rock has formed when mamga hardened beneth the erath surface is a called   Intusive  
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_______ is the most common extrusive rock and is sfen crushed and used t make gravel   Balsal  
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_________ is the most common intrusive rock is often used for decorative stonework, curbstone and floors   Grainte  
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The texture of igneos rock depends on the size and ________ of its mineral_____________   The texture of igneos rock depends on the size and SHAPE of its mineral CRYSTAL  
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Rapliy lava forms _______- Grain ingeous rocks with _________ cyatal   coasre, and big  
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People throght history have use ingeuous rocks for tool and building materials they are hard ________   Dense and darble  
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the small solid picese of mineral that come from rocks or living things are called   Semantary  
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there are 4 major processes that occur for a sedimentary rock to be formed erosion with produces sediment ___________ compaction _____   Impound, cement  
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What are the three major souses erosion? Running ______   water  
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The process by which sediments are pressed together is call   Compaction  
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the process in which dissolved mineral crystallize and glue particles of sediment together is called   Compaction  
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What are the three major groups of sedimentary rocks_______ organic and _____________   Classic, and Cheimal  
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A classic rock is a sedimentary rock that forms when rock fragment are _________ togther   Scugged  
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an organic rock is a rock that forms where the ramian of _______ and _____ deposited in thick layers   Plants and Anmails  
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Chemical rock form when mineral tat are dissolved in a solution   Crystallize  
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what tow factors deep beneath the earth surface can change any rock into metamorphic rock?   Heat and pressure.  
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Wen rock change into metamorphic rock its appearance texture _____ structure and _____ content change.   Crystal mineral  
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when metamorphic rock is forming high ______ can change the size and shape of grain in the rock   Tempature  
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Tremendous _______ can also sqeeze rock tightly that the mineral____ may lines in flat parallel layers   Persure, grain  
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what do we call rock that these thin, bands of parallel lyares?   Folated  
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If the mineral grain in a rock are arranged randomly then they are called   Non-folated  
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what are two most useful metamorphic rocks that are used for building and sculpture?   Marble stale  
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Why har marble been use a lot to create buildings and sculptures?   Marble can be cut in different ways  
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