The Earth & its Geosphere
The solid part of our planet that is divided into 3 layers
What is geosphere?
Rocks are composed of one or more of these
What are minerals?
A natural aggregate formed by one or more minerals
What is a rock?
The two types of crust
What are oceanic crust and continental crust?
The color of a mineral in powdered form
What is powered form?
How minerals are arranged in the rock
What is texture?
Molten rock in the deeper mantle
What is magma
Example are olivine, quartz, muscovite and orthoclase
What are silicate minerals?
What are sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic rock?
The crust is a source of these things
What is natural resources?
Mineral that can be easily scratched with a fingernail
What is talc
Magma cools & solidifies slowly inside the crust to form these rocks
What are plutonic rocks?
These components make up the lithosphere
What are the crust and the upper mantle?
Property when you see a double image when looking through the mineral
What is birefringence?
Sedimentary rocks that come from precipitation of mineral salts
What are non-detrital rocks?