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| What makes a mineral a mineral? | Naturally occuring, Inorganic, Definate Chemical Composition |
| Crystallization | Process by which a mineral grows |
| Diamond | Mineral with the hardness of 10 |
| Fracture | Mineral breaks rough, uneven or bumpy |
| Cleavage | Mineral breaks evenly in smooth flat surfaces |
| Streak | Powder produced when a mineral is ground up |
| Talc | The softest mineral with a hardness of 1 |
| Quartz | The most abundant silicate mineral on the earth |
| Silicates | Rock forming minerals containing silicon and oxygen |
| Color | The least reliable of test used to identify minerals |
| Luster | The way the surface of mineral reflects light |
| Specific Gravity | The density of a mineral compared with the density of water |
| Rocks | An aggregate (combination) of one or more minerals |
| Three rock types based on how they are formed | Igneous, Sedimentary, Metamorphic |
| Intrusive rock | Igneous rock with large coarse crystal grains |
| Limestone | Formed organically from seashells |
| Rocks containing fossils | Sedimentary Rock |
| Metamorphic Rock | Rocks formed from existing rock through heat, pressure, and chemical reactions |
| Igneous Rock | Rock formed when molten rock cools and hardens |
| Rock Cycle | The continuous process in which rocks change from one type to another |
| Extrusive Rocks | Rocks that form as magma cools quickly as it leaves volcanoes. |
| Granite | One of the most common intrusive rocks - known for its hardness (tombstone anyone?) |
| Shale | Most commone sedimentary rock and indicates places where ancient seas covered the land |
| Melting | Process by which rock becomes magma |
| Weathering and Erosion | Processes by which Clastic Rock forms |
| Volcano or Rift | Geological phenomena most likely to produce igneous rocks |
| Slate (blackboards used to be made of this) | Sedimentary shale can be heated and pressured and turn into this |
| limestone | sedimentary rock composed largely of the minerals calcite. Usually composed of skeletal fragments of marine organisms |
| marble | metamorphosed limestone |
| gravity | What causes a nebula or cloud of dust and gas to form a baby star? |
| three quarters (3/4) | About ______ of the world's volcanoes are around the Pacific Rim and it is called the Ring of Fire. |
| magma chamber | A collection of or lake of melted rock under ground that is under a LOT of pressure |
| radioactivity from inside the earth gives off immense amount of heat | Why is the earth's center soooooo HOT? |
| lithification | What is the name for the process that forms a sedimentary rock? |
| Glue-like | Minerals left over after water has evaporated from sediment layers acts like |
| SPACE | An atom is made up mostly of |
| 1/2 mile | If the nucleus of an atom were the size of a large marble, approximately how far away is the nearest electron? |
| melting and crystallization | What process/es occur/s when a metamorphic rock turns in to an igneous rock? |
| cementation | What is the process called when water seeps between the holes in a sedimentary rock then evaporates leaving minerals between the grains. |
