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100
The four properties minerals share
What are 1) formed by natural processes 2) inorganic 3) elements or compounds w/ definite chemical composition 4) crystalline solids
100
the color the powdered version of a mineral produces
What is streak?
100
size of crystals when magma cools slowly
What is large?
100
it is continuous and has multiple paths to cause change
What is the rock cycle?
100
the most abundant type of rock
What are igneous rocks?
200
The approximate number of minerals found on Earth
What is 4000?
200
the two ways minerals form
What is 1) cooling magma 2) when liquid evaporates and leaves the minerals behind
200
makes a rock an ore
What is it has something in it that can be mined for profit?
200
organic sedimentary rocks made from microscopic shells
What is chalk?
200
igneous rocks that form below ground
What are intrusive rocks?
300
Measured by the Mohs scale
What is hardness?
300
about 98% of Earth's crust is made of this number of elements
What is 8?
300
the process that glues sediments into sedimentary rocks
What is cementation?
300
differentiates breccia from conglomerate
What is the shape of its sediment?
300
bits of rocks, minerals and plants and animals
What is sediment?
400
density
What is the amount of matter is a certain amount of space? (how tightly packed it is)
400
the most common rock forming minerals
What are silicates?
400
describes metamorphic rocks that are not easily separated into layers
What is non-foliaated?
400
light-colored igneous rocks that are less dense
What is granitic?
400
how all rocks become magma
What is melting?
500
describes the shininess of a mineral
What is luster?
500
the two elements found in all silicates
What are oxygen and silicon?
500
the process that changes shale into slate
What is heat and pressure?
500
the amount of space something takes up
What is volume?
500
the process of measuring volume by water displacement
What is 1) measure a volume of water 2) add object 3) measure new volume of water 4) the difference between the 2 is the volume of object
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