Properties of Minerals
More Properties of Minerals
Types of Rocks
The Rock Cycle
Requirements to be a Mineral
100
The appearance of a mineral from the light it reflects back into your eyes
What is color
100
The smell a mineral gives off
What is odor
100
Rocks made from magma or lava
What are igneous rocks
100
The cycle in which rocks are changed from one type to another
What is The Rock Cycle
100
It occurs in nature
What is naturally occurring
200
The shine a mineral gives off when in light
What is luster
200
The flavor a mineral is perceived to have
What is taste
200
Rocks made from compacted sediments
What are sedimentary rocks
200
Rocks are broken down into sediments by weathering or erosion
How are sediments made
200
It is not living
What is inotganic
300
The color of the mark a mineral makes
What is streak
300
The attraction or repulsion towards a magnet
What is magnetism
300
Rocks made from other rocks heated up and mixed together
What are metamorphic rocks
300
Sediments are packed together and form sedimentary rocks
How are sedimentary rocks created
300
Has a stable and sound structure
What is solid
400
The resistance a mineral has to being broken
What is hardness
400
The structure of a minerals atoms in a crystal
What is a crystalline structure
400
Rocks made from magma
What are intrusive igneous rocks
400
Sediments are heated up and mix together
How are metamorphic rocks made
400
Always has the same chemical composition under normal circumstances
What is definite chemical composition
500
When a mineral breaks along a flat surface
What is Cleavage
500
When a mineral breaks along an uneven surface
What is fracture
500
Rocks made from lava
What are extrusive igneous rocks
500
Rocks are heated up and melt into magma and then is cooled either under or above ground
How are igneous rocks made
500
Has a well ordered structure of atoms
What is orderly structure
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