Components of an Mineral
The sub-particle of an atom with a negative charge.
What is an electron.
The color of a mineral's powder.
What is streak.
The amount of characteristics of a mineral.
A mixture of minerals usually cemented together.
What is rock.
The three classifications of rocks.
What are igneous, metamorphic, sedimentary.
A substance made up of two or more elements combined.
What is a compound.
How light is reflected from a mineral's surface.
What is luster.
A characteristic of a mineral usually spoken about alongside other states of matter.
What is solid.
The Earth's crust is mainly made up of only twenty types of these.
What are minerals.
When this is cooled down it forms igneous rock.
What is magma.
The smallest part of the substance with all it's properties.
What is a molecule.
This property is measured with the Moh's______scale.
What is hardness.
Characteristic of a mineral that requires it to be made from the natural world.
What is naturally occurring.
Particles of minerals and other rocks that make up rocks.
What are grains.
Rocks broken down into small pieces are called this.
What is sediment.
A simple substance that cannot be broken down into simpler substances by ordinary chemical means.
These properties, usually spoken about together as a duo relates to how the mineral breaks.
What is cleavage and fracture.
The chemical composition of minerals always keeps elements in...
What is definite proportions.
The property of a rock that is the look and feel of a rock's surface.
What is texture.
Any rock can form into metamorphic rock when put through this duo.
What is heat and pressure.
The numbers in a chemical formula shows how many of these are in a molecule.
What are atoms.
Crystallization is the formation caused by cooling and this.
What is evaporation.
Identify the characteristic from the definition: Cannot be formed from materials that were once living things.
What is inorganic.
Name two of the three things geologist observe in a rock.
What is mineral composition, color, and texture.
Any classification of rock and turn into any other classification of it's gone through this.
What is a rock cycle.