earths lego system set Flashcards
Any property that can be observed using the five senses or can be measured without changing the matter
Physical properties
Weight how heavy an object is mass is how much stuff matter something is made of
Wait/Mass
A state of matter that maintains its own shape instead of conforming to the shape of its container
Solid
Something that can flow and takes the shape of its container like water or juice but it has fixed amount of space volume similar to how a solid stays the same size
Liquid
It allows something like he or electricity to float or pass for easily
Conduct
Energy that moves from something hot to something cold a form of energy
Heat
A substance found in nature minerals make up rocks
Minerals
How easily or difficult it is to scratch a minerals surface
Hardness
The color of its powder when you rub it on a hard rough surface like a tile
Streak
The colored powder left behind when a mineral is scraped across a hard surface like a ceramic tile which helps identify the mineral by its streak color
tiles
It’s what light reflects back to our eyes minerals are colored because they absorb some colors of light that reflect the rest
Color
How shiny a rock or mineral looks when light shines on it like a mirror or glassy or even though Luster is a physical property used by mineralogists to help identify minerals
Luster
How some minerals break along smooth flat lines instead of randomly like when you crack an egg
Cleavage
Where try to scratch a rock with different objects like a fingernail or a penny to see if if it is hard or soft
Scratch test
surface erosion weathering rapid drastic slow changes landslide volcano earthquake magnetic
Supporting vocabulary
a naturally formed combination of minerals and other natural materials
Rocks
a solid naturally formed substance that always has the same composition and the same properties
Minerals
the dirt and stuff that settles to the bottom of liquids or is carried and then deposited by water wind or ice
Sediment
Rocked formed from compacted sediment
Sedimentary
Rock formed for magma or lava
Igneous
rock formed from existing rock heat and pressure cause the minerals in form new combinations or new crystals
Metamorphic
magma-molten rock within earth attributes or characteristics pressure - is like a push or a squeeze and that pressure helps change the rocks in the Earth rock cycle - the continuous process of change in which new rocks are formed from old rock materials
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