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Minerals From Solutions
Minerals From Heat or Pressure
Tiny Particles
Mineral? (and WHY?)
Other vocab
100
The location that you would expect to find these minerals.
What is near the surface?
100
These are formed by heat and pressure.
What are metamorphics?
100
A solid geometric from with a repeating pattern of atoms.
What is a crystal?
100
Cheese.
What is no (organic)?
100
Molten rock that has broken through the surface of the Earth.
What is lava?
200
The formation that occurs as the result of a lake drying up.
What is evaporite?
200
These form from large bodies of magma deep beneath the Earth's surface.
What are plutons?
200
A pure substance that cannot be broken down by ordinary chemical means.
What is an element?
200
Cubic zirconia.
What is no (man made).
200
A crystal-lined cavity in a rock.
What is a geode?
300
The result of minerals "falling out" of solution.
What is precipitate?
300
These form from small pockets of magma that travel toward the Earth's surface.
What are pegmatites?
300
The smallest part of an element that shares all of the properties of the element.
What is an atom?
300
Limestone
What is no (not crystalline structure)
300
A narrow channel of pure mineral found in a rock.
What is a vein?
400
Result from water pushing through cracks in rocks.
What are hydrothermals?
400
The type of rock formed by minerals coming from plutons.
What is igneous?
400
A substance made of two ro more elements chemically bonded.
What is a compound?
400
Mercury.
What is no (liquid)?
400
The process of mineral formation that is related to time.
What is crystallization?
500
An example of an evaporite.
What is calcite, gypsum, or halite.
500
The most common mineral on Earth.
What is feldspar?
500
A liquid containing dissolved minerals.
What is a solution?
500
Gold.
What is yes (solid, inorganic, natural, crystal)?
500
The process of a rock changing form as a result of heat and pressure
What is metamorphism?