Mineral Properties
What is luster
The property of minerals that show how well a mineral reflects light.
What is soil
the mixture of weathered rock and organic remains
Rocks are made of...
Minerals
What does vesicular mean
Air holes in a volcanic rock
What are sediments
Rocks that are broken into fragments
What is streak in a mineral
The color of a mineral in its powdered form
What are horizon layers
The layers created by soil
Igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic
What size sediments make shale
Small sized sediments
What is erosion
The transporting of sediments by either gravity, water, wind, glacier
What is a mineral
non living naturally occurring solid
The difference between residual and transported soil
Residual soil is soil that resides where it was formed. Transported soil was moved someplace else.
What are igneous rocks
Rocks formed and solidified by lava
When magma cools quickly, how big will the formed crystals be
They are going to be small
What are meanders
S-curves that develop when land is flat
Which scale is used to determine a minerals hardness
scratching using MOHs scale
What is the slow process that turns rocks into smaller pieces
Weathering
What is a way rocks can change into metamorphic rocks
When heat and pressure are applied
What are the five main properties of minerals?
Streak, hardness, luster, texture, and shape
What does velocity in streams depend on
The slope and the amount of water flowing in the stream
True or false : rocks are made up of minerals
True
What is topsoil rich in
organic matter and humus
On or near the Earths surface
A fossil was found in a rock. What type of rock is it?
A) sedimentary rock
B) metamorphic rock
C) igneous rock
A) sedimentary rock
As stream gradient increases, what happens to the velocity
The velocity increases