Earth
The largest layer of the earth
What is the mantle?
What is Cleavage?
A person that studies the structure, rocks, and minerals on Earth.
What is a geologist?
Formed by heat and pressure below the Earth's surface
What is metamorphic rock?
Hard natural substance made of one or more minerals that contain organic materials.
What is a rock?
The thin outer layer of the Earth.
What is the Crust?
What is the streak?
The movement of sediments from one place to another.
What is erosion?
A rock like substance that forms from decayed plant matter.
What is coal?
This scale is used to determine the harness of minerals.
What is Mohs Scale?
The center of the Earth
What is the Core?
Rock formed by heat and pressure deep below the Earth's crust.
What is Metamorphic?
Gemstones that are beautiful and rare.
What are precious stones?
Most of the rocks formed during the flood
What is sedimentary?
A mineral that can be cut and polished for use
What is a gemstone?
Inorganic substance found naturally.
Rock that forms when layers of sediment and organic material harden.
What is sedimentary?
Wearing away of the Earth
What is Weathering?
The loose material on the surface of the Earth in which plants can grow.
What is soil?
The ability of a mineral to resist scratching
What is hardness?
A substance made of things that were never alive.
What is inorganic?
Rock formed from magma or volcanic lava.
The fake diamond
What is Cubic zirconia?
A type of igneous rock made from hardened lava
What is obsidian?
The way a mineral reflects light
What is its luster?