Earth's system Flashcards
Physical properties
Any property that can be observed using the five senses or can be measured without changing the matter
Wait and mass
weight how heavy an object is) (mass) is how much stuff( matter) something is made of)
Solid
A state of matter that maintains its own shape instead of confirming to the shape of its container.
Liquid
Something that can smell and take the sheep of its container like water or juice but it has fixed amount of space (volume) similar to how I saw Steve the same.
Conduct
It allows something like he or electricity to flow or pass through it easily.
Heat
Energy that moves from something hot to something cold a form of energy
Minerals
A substance found in nature materials makeup rocks.
Hardness
How easily or difficult it is to scratch a materials surface.
Streak
The color of its powder when you rub it on a hard rough surface like a tile.
Tiles
The colored powder left behind when a material is scraped across a hard surface like a ceramic tile which identify the material by its streak color.
Color
It’s what light reflex back to our eyes minerals are colored because they absorb some colors of light and reflect the rest.
Luster
How shiny a rock or mineral looks with light shines on it like a mirror or glassy or even dull.( luster is a physical property used by mineralogists help identify minerals.
Cleavage
how some minerals break a long smooth flat lines instead of randomly like when you crack an egg
Scratch test
When you try to scratch a rock with different objects like a fingernail or a penny to see if it’s hard or soft
Rocks
A naturally formed combination or minerals and other natural materials.
Minerals
Instead a solid natural formed substance that always has the same composition and the same properties
Sediment
The dirt and stuff that settles to the bottom of liquids or is carried and then deposited is it by water when or ice
Sedimentary
Rock forms from compact sediment
Igneous
Rock formed from magma or lava.
metamorphic
Rock form from existing rock heat and pressure cause the minerals to form new combinations or new crystals