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| geologist | A person that studies rocks and minerals. |
| fossils | Often found in sedimentary rocks which enables scientists to learn about existing life in the past. |
| luster | This property is the way the mineral reflects light and is either dull or shiney. |
| lava | Melted rock material that reaches the earth's surface before it hardens and cools. |
| rocks | Solid material made from minerals that form the earth's crust. |
| The Rock Cycle | The name given to the transformation from one type of rock to another type of rock. |
| sediment | Bits of weathered rocks and minerals, pieces of dead plants and animals, sand and silt. |
| properties | The characteristics we observe or test which will help us tell one sample from another. |
| magma | Melted rock deep within the earth. |
| crystals | The special pattern of atoms in minerals. |
| sedimentary rocks | Rocks formed from sediment. |
| igneous rocks | A rock formed from magma that has cooled and hardened. |
| metamorphic rocks | New rock formed from existing rock that is changed by heat and pressure inside the earth. |
| minerals | Solids that form in the ground from one or more chemicals. They are NOT living and have never lived. |
| streak test | Used to test a mineral's hardness. |
| erosion | The loss of soil due to wind or as a result of washing away by water. |
| hardness | One of the properties of the Mohns'Scale of Hardness. |
| Mohns' Scale of Hardness | This scale puts minerals in a list of soft to hard with talc being the softest and diamond being the hardest. |
| color | This property of minerals can be red, yellow, green, or blue. |
