Minerals
Made of many minerals.
What is Mineral composition?
a mixture of minerals cemented together.
What is a rock?
Ores are rocks and can also be minerals, formed naturally,crystal structure and definite composition.
Can rocks form minerals?
A hot liquid found inside the earth.
What is magma?
D=M/V
what is the formula for density?
Naturally occurring, solid, definite chemical composition and crystal structure.
What is a mineral?
particles of rock carried away and often deposited by water or wind.
What are rock sediments?
Cleaning an area after mining and fixing any problems.
What is restoration?
Neutron proton and electrons are...
different charges found in an atom.
small grains of sand cemented together.
What is sandstone?
Precipitation, Crystalization and Evaporation are 3 important processes.
How do you form a Mineral?
Forming inside or outside of earths surface, close to magma, cooling stages depends on where they cool and the time.
What is an Igneous rock?
Can not be formed from materials once living or alive.
what are Inorganic minerals?
Clues:
-known as "the building blocks" and the smallest.
- one can make the other but the other can't make one.
What is the difference between an atom and an element?
natural processes where rocks slowly change form and become different rocks.
what is the rock cycle?
6 ways to identify a mineral.
what is luster, streak, Hardness, Scratch, cleavage and fracture.
Particles of minerals and other rocks that help form rock, grains are sized and may have different compositions.
what is Coarse and Fine grain rocks?
Rapidly cooling and slow cooling magma forms (___) depending on the cooling forms.
what are large and small crystals?
made of fragments of rocks.
what is a Clastic rock?
two or more elements combined.
what is a compound?
A mineral’s structure and chemical composition give it characteristics, shifts are often due to trace elements and most;y how the light is reflected.
how can the same mineral be found in different colors?
3 kinds, each distinct, has different properties to define themselves.
What are Igneous, Metamorphic and sedimentary rocks?
High silica content forms (___) colored rocks while low silica will form (___) colored rocks
what makes light and dark colored rocks?
Rocks made from minerals that dissolved in solutions that crystalize or are formed when minerals deposits are left after a body of water evaporates.
what are chemical rocks?
the first and second elements in the table of elements.
what is hydrogen and helium?