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What Dissolves in the hot water to form solutions

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Minerals

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What is water heated by

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Magma

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What leaves the solutions during cooling?

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Elements and compounds

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What do elements and compounds do when they leave

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Crystallize as minerals

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The minerals form a long channel or slab in the rock called a

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Vein

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What are the two ways minerals form

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  1. crystallization of melted materials.

2. crystallization of materials dissolved in water.

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How do small crystals form

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Fast cooling

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How do big crystals form

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Slow cooling

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How do minerals for pm near ocean ridges

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  1. Water seeps down through cracks in crust.
  2. water meets magma and cools to high temperature.
  3. water dissolves minerals from crust rushes up through chimneys.
  4. when cooled minerals crystallize they settle to the ocean floor
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How do halite deposits form

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When the ancient seas slowly evaporate

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What is a mixture of one substance dissolves in another

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Solution

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What is a narrow channel of slab of a mineral that is sharply different from the surrounding rock.

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A vein

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Name all 5 mineral properties

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  1. hardness
  2. color
  3. streak
  4. luster
  5. density
  6. crystal systems
  7. cleavage and fracture
  8. crystal systems
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What is cleavage

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The property of splitting across even surfaces

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What is streak

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The color of a minerals powder

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What is a luster

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How a mineral reflects light from its surface

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What is a Compound

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Two or more elements chemically joined

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What is fluorescence

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The property of glowing under ultraviolet light.

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What is fracture

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How a mineral breaks apart when it does not split evenly

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What is the MOHs hardness scale

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Ranking of minerals from softest to hardest

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What is a crystal

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The repeating pattern of a mineral particles in a solid

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What is a element

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A substance composed of a single type of Atom

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What is a mineral

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Naturally occurring inorganic solid that has a crystal structure and definite chemical composition

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What does inorganic mean

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Not Formed from living things or the remains of living things.

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What is a crystal

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A solid in which the Atoms are arranged in a pattern that repeats again and again

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What is a element

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A substance composed of a single kind of atom

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What is a compound

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A substance in which two or more elements are chemically joined

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What is the Mohs hardness scale

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Scale ranking minerals from the softest the hardest use them testing the hardness of minerals

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What is a streak

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The color of a mineral powder

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What is a luster

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The way a mineral reflects light from its surface

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What is a fracture

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The way mineral looks when it breaks apart in the regular way

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What is cleavage

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And minerals ability to split easily a long flat surfaces

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What is florescence

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The property of a mineral and watch the middle glows under ultraviolet light

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What is a solution

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A mixture in which one substance is dissolved in another

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What is a vein

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And narrow slab of a mineral that a sharply different from the surrounding rock

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