Minerals
What do minerals make?
What is Rocks
Mixture of minerals, volcanic glass, organic material, etc
What is rock
The breakdown of rocks into smaller and smaller parts called sediments
What is weathering
Rock fragments collide as they are being carried by wind, water, and ice
What is Abrasion
Made up of minerals, rock, sand, clay, silt, air, water, and organic material
What is soil
The manner in which a mineral reflects light
What is Luster
A model showing the processes that create and change rock
What is The rock cycle
What are the two different types of weathering?
What is physical and chemical
Slow gradual movement
What is Creep
Soil whose parent material lies below it
What is residual soil
How many physical properties are used to define minerals?
What is 9 physical properties
Rock formed by cooling and crystallization of hot molten rock
What is igneous rock
Mineral deposits on the cavern's roof. Looks like icicles.
What is stalactites
Plant roots, burrowing animals, and human activities can cause rocks to break apart
What is organic activity
Soil that contains balance amounts of sand, silt and clay
What is loam
How many minerals are there on Earth?
What is 3500
Light colored continental rocks high in silicon
What is felsic
What is the most important factor of weathering?
What is climate
Chemical weathering also called...
What is Decomposition
The organic component of soil, formed by the decomposition of leaves and other plant material by soil microorganisms
What is humus
What are 8 physical properties used to define minerals?
What is, color luster, streak, hardness, crystal shape, mineral cleavage and, fracture
Rocks the form when rocks that already exist are changed by heat and pressure into new kinds of rocks
What is metamorphic rock
Alternating between freezing and thawing causing water to expand when it freezes and contracts when it melts causing the rock to split
What is Ice-wedging
Physical weathering, also called...
Disintegration
Soil whose parent material is far away from it
What is transported soil