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Landforms
Rocks
The needs to form a Mineral
Minerals
Properties of a mineral
100
Steep slopes and high elevation
What is a mountain?
100
Igneous, Sedimentary, and Metamorphic
What are the 3 types of rocks?
100
Happens only in nature
What is the definition for natural occurring?
100
Glass, metal (aluminum), rocks Gypsum (sheet rock), food
What are examples of minerals?
100
Moh's Scale used to rate a rock or mineral
What is hardness?
200
Low elevation and U-shaped or V-shaped
What is a valley?
200
Rock made from molten material (melted) (volcanic)
What is a Igneous rock?
200
Usually from a non-living source
What is the definition of generally organic?
200
The solid part of Earth
What is a mineral?
200
Won't always help you identify a mineral
What is color?
300
Grassy, plants, and low elevation
What is a plain?
300
Rocks formed from layers upon layers of sediment
What is a Sedimentary rock?
300
Anything that's not liquid and gas
What is the definition of solid
300
3,800
What is the number of rare minerals?
300
Every mineral has a unique ______.
What is crystal shape?
400
High elevation, no slopes, and flat surface
What is a plateaus?
400
Heat and pressure cause rocks to change from one type to another
What is a Metamorphic rock?
400
The atoms in a mineral are arranged in an orderly repeated fashion
What is the definition for crystal structure?
400
30
What is the number of common minerals?
400
How much something weighs
What is density?
500
Mountains, Valleys, Plains, and Plateaus
What is a land formation?
500
The process in which one type of rock turns into another type
What is the rock cycle?
500
A mineral will have a certain chemical make-up
What is the definition for Definite Composition?
500
when crystals grow in nature (ex. melted rock or dissolved in H20)
How does a mineral form?
500
Rocks and minerals break with a smooth flat surface or irregular rough lines
What is cleavage and fracture?