Minerals
Process by which atoms form a solid with an orderly, repeating pattern
What is crystallization?
The scale used to measure hardness
What is Mohs scale?
Rocks that form when sediments are cemented together
What are sedimentary?
Rock and mineral fragments that are loose and suspended in water
What is sediment?
Laying down of sediment
What is deposition?
Materials that are not and were never living
What is inorganic?
Describes how a mineral reflects light
What is luster?
Rocks that form when magma or lava cools and crystallizes
What is igneous?
The process by which sediment turns into rock
What is lithification?
Processes that change one rock type to another
What is rock cycle?
Mineral name for salt
What is halite?
Describes the heaviness of a mineral
What is density?
Rocks that form when parent rocks are heated or squeezed
What are metamorphic?
Rocks formed from lava on the surface of Earth
What are extrusive rocks?
Carrying of sediments to different locations
What is erosion?
Name two things crystals form from
What is magma and water?
How easily a mineral is scratched
What is hardness?
Grain size and how grains are arranged
What is texture?
Distinct bands of light and dark minerals formed from uneven pressure
What are foliated rocks?
As temperature and pressure change, rocks go through this
What is metamorphism?
Name five characteristics of minerals
What is naturally occurring, inorganic, solid, crystal structure, and chemical composition?
Smooth, flat mineral breakages
What is cleavage?
Name the 3 characteristics of rocks
What is naturally occurring, solid mixture, and made of smaller pieces (minerals, rocks)?
Individual particles in rocks
What are grains?
Bringing rocks to the surface
What is uplift?