Types of Minerals
The largest mineral group.
What are Silicates?
Rocks that have been changed in shape by heat and pressure.
What are Metamorphic Rocks?
Crystals are smaller.
What happens when lava cools fast?
A resource that can be used more than once and naturally replaced.
What is a Renewable Resource?
The process that moves minerals/rocks from one spot on the earth's crust to the next.
What is Erosion?
It is made out of carbon atoms and oxygen atoms.
What are carbonates made out of?
Rocks formed from cooled and solidified magma.
What are Igneous Rocks?
Makes bigger crystals.
What happens when magma cools slow?
A resource that cannot be naturally replaced fast enough to be all used up.
What is a Non-Renewable Resource?
The process in which rocks and minerals melt into liquid magma.
What is metamorphism?
Salts that form when water evaporates.
What are Halides?
When a chemical goes for a liquid to a solid crystal.
What is Crystallization?
How shiny a mineral is.
What is Luster?
A natural resource that we use mainly to make fuels.
What is Petroleum?
When particles in suspension move through the fluid they're in and stop and rest at a border.
What is Sedimentation?
Elements that occur in nature.
What are Native Elements?
Materials fastening together in sedimentary rocks.
Minerals are inorganic, not organic.
Are Minerals Organic or Inorganic?
The natural resource that you get from surface and underground mining from almost every country.
What is Coal?
The first rock to form on earth.
What is Basalt?
Metallic elements combined with sulfur without oxygen.
What are Sulfides?
Rocks that go through the process of forming from minerals or organic particles on the floors of bodies of water.
What are Sedimentary Rocks?
The pattern in which a mineral breaks.
What is Fracture?
A natural resource we use for food, deicing roads, agriculture, and many industrial chemicals.
What is Salt?
When a rock is valuable enough to mine it.
What is an Ore?