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