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Vocabulary
Vocabulary 2
Changing Rocks
Hardness Scale
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100
A natural substance made of one or more minerals.
What is rock
100
A naturally occuring nonliving solid that has a specific chemical makeup and a repeating structure.
What is mineral
100
The process of wearing away rocks by natural processes.
What is weathering
100
What hardness does a fingernail have?
What is 2.5
100
What is a conglomerate rock? And where did you find that rock?
What is a rock that has been cemented together over time. Most likely in a river.
200
Rock that forms when melted rock cools and harden.
What is igneous rock
200
The color of the powder left behind when you rub a mineral against a rough white tile or a streak plate.
What is streak.
200
The process of moving sediment by wind, water, or ice.
What is erosion
200
What hardness does a copper penny have?
What is 3
200
How do you classify minerals.
What is luster, color, hardness, streak
300
The process in which sediment settles out of water or is dropped by wind.
What is deposition
300
The way a mineral's life reflects light
What is luster.
300
I have been changed with heat and pressure what kind of rock am I?
What is metamorphic rock .
300
What hardness does a steel nail have?
What is 5.5
300
What are some unique properties of minerals.
What is magnetism, florescence, an electric charge, and produces a double image.
400
Rock formed when sediments are cemented together.
What is sedimentary rock.
400
A mineral's ability to resist being scratched.
What is hardness.
400
I have been changed by weathering, erosion, and cemented together over time. What kind of rock am I?
What is sedimentary rock.
400
Who invented the hardness scale?
What is Fredrich Mohs.
400
What kind of property does waxy describe?
What is luster.
500
Rock formed when high heat and great pressure change existing rocks into a new form.
What is metamorphic rock.
500
The continuous process in which one type of rock changes into another type.
What is the rock cycle.
500
I have been changed my heat and cooling. What kind of rock am I?
What is igneous rock.
500
What is the hardest mineral on the hardness scale?
What is a diamond
500
Why are there no fossils found in igneous rock?
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