Minerals
A physical property to classify minerals.
What is hardness? What is color? What is shape? What is texture? What is luster? What is size?
Rocks are made of...
What are minerals?
The layer of soil at the surface.
What is topsoil?
The type of soil that retains water well and has tiny particles you cannot see with your naked eye.
What is clay?
The breaking down of rocks and soils into smaller pieces.
What is weathering?
The scale used by scientists to measure hardness.
What is MOH's Hardness Scale?
The type of rock that forms by intense heat and pressure.
What is metamorphic rock?
What is bedrock?
The type of soil that is gritty and the particles can be seen with your naked eyes.
What is sand?
The main causes of weathering.
What is wind and water?
A test performed to see the color left behind by a mineral usually on a white tile.
What is streak test?
What is sedimentary rock?
The layer of soil that has bits of rocks and little humus.
What is subsoil?
Soil that is made up of decomposed plants and animals.
What is humus?
The movement of broken down rocks and soils.
What is erosion.
The softest mineral.
What is Talc?
The type of rock formed from melted rock cooling and hardening.
What is igneous rock?
The layer of soil where insects and small plant roots are usually found.
What is topsoil?
The type of soil that is a mixture of sand, silt, and clay.
What is loam?
The main causes of erosion.
What is wind and water?
The hardest mineral.
The name that describes the changing of rocks from one to another.
What is the rock cycle?
The layer of soil that is least likely to have plant roots or living organisms living in it.
What is bedrock?
The type of soil that is best for growing crops.
What is loam?
A way to prevent weathering and erosion.
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