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Vocabulary
Rocks
Rock Cycle
Minerals
More Rocks
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The Definition for mineral
What is a naturally occurring non-living solid.
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Rock (definition
What is a natural solid made up of minerals.
100
Sediment
What is small pieces of broken rock, dust, and sand
100
Mohs's scale of hardness.
What is a scale of 1-10 by which minerals are classified based on their ability to be scratched.
100
This is what happens to temperature when pressure rises
What is temperature rises.
200
The definition of streak.
What is the colored powder left behind when a mineral is scratched across a white surface.
200
Igneous Rock
What is Rock created when melted rock cools and hardens.
200
Erosion
What is the process of wearing away and removing sediment by wind, water, or ice.
200
The Five Lusters.
What is metalic, glassy, pearly, waxy, and dull?
200
Metamorphic rock forms mostly in these three places.
What is under mountains, under the ocean floor, near volcanoes?
300
The definition of luster.
What is the manner in which a mineral's surface reflects light.
300
Sedimentary Rock
What is rock formed from cemented sediment?
300
Magma.
What is molten liquid rock inside the earth
300
The reason color is not the best way to classify minerals.
What is many minerals are the same color cor can come in a variety of colors.
300
These types of rocks form metamorphic rocks.
What is sedimentary, metamorphic, igneous
400
Weathering
What is a process by which rocks are worn down by natural processes
400
Metamorphic Rock.
What is rocks formed when other types of rocks are worn down by natural processes
400
Rock Cycle
What is the continuous process in which one type of rock changes into another type of rock?
400
What soil is made up of.
What is broken down rocks and a variety of minerals, and humus which is material from decayed plants and animals.
400
This happens to igneous rocks after weathering an erosion.
What is formation of sedimentary rocks.
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Deposition
What is sediment that is set down or deposited by wind or water.
500
Conglomerate
What is sedimentary rock formed out of ground sand, pebbles, and large pieces of rock.
500
Metamorphosis
What is the Greek word meaning to change.
500
The reason minerals affect the way rocks weather and erode.
What is the hardness of the minerals in the rocks.
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This happens to metamorphic rocks when they are heated in the earth.
What is molten rocks comes out, cools, and hardens.