Earths system

Question 1

Any property that can be observed using the five senses or can be measured without changing the matter

Answer 1

Physical properties

Question 2

Weight- How heavy an object is (mass is how much stuff (matter) something is made of)

Answer 2

weight/mass

Question 3

A state of matter that maintains its own shape of its container

Answer 3

solid

Question 4

Something that can flow and takes the shape of its container like water or juice but it has a fixed amount of space (volume) similar to how a solid stays the same size

Answer 4

liquid

Question 5

It allows something like heat or electricity to flow or pass through

Answer 5

conduct

Question 6

Energy that moves from something hot to something cold this is a form of energy

Answer 6

heat

Question 7

A substance found in nature and minerals make up rocks

Answer 7

minerals

Question 8

How easily or difficult it is to scratch a minerals surface

Answer 8

hardness

Question 9

The color of its powder when you rub it on a hard rough surface like a tile

Answer 9

streak

Question 10

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

Answer 10

tiles

Question 11

its what light reflects back to our eyes minerals are colored because they absorb some colors of light and reflect the rest

Answer 11

color

Question 12

how shiny a rock or mineral looks when light shines on it like mirror or glassy or even dull luster is a physical property used by mineralogists to help identify minerals

Answer 12

luster

Question 13

how some minerals break along smooth flat lines instead of randomly like when you crack an egg

Answer 13

cleavage

Question 14

where you try to scratch a rock with different objects like a fingernail or a penny to see if its hard

Answer 14

scratch test

Question 15

A naturally formed combination of minerals and other natural materials

Answer 15

rocks

Question 16

a solid naturally formed substance that always has the same composition and the same properties

Answer 16

minerals

Question 17

the dirt and stuff that settles to the bottom of liquids or is carried and then deposited by water wind or ice

Answer 17

sediment

Question 18

rock formed from compacted sediment

Answer 18

sedimentry

Question 19

rock formed from magma or lava

Answer 19

igneous

Question 20

rock formed from existing rock heat and pressure cause the minerals to form new combinations or new crystals

Answer 20

metamorphic