Earths system Flashcards
A naturally foreign combination of minerals and other natural materials
rocks
A naturally form substance that always has the same properties
Minerals
Something that can flow and shape of its container like water or juice but it has a fixed amount of space ,similar to how a solid stays the same.
liquid
a state of matter that maintains it’ own shape instead of conforming to the shape of its container
solid
it allows something like heat or electricity to flow or pass through it
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
a substance found in nature minerals make up rocks
minerals
How easily you are difficult it is to scratch minerals surface
Hardness
Go ahead the color powder left behind when a minerals is scraped across a hard surface like ceramic tile which helps identify the minerals by its streak color
Tiles
How shiny a rock or mineral looks when light shines on it like a mirror or glassy or even dull
luster
What light will flex i reflect back to her eyes minerals or colored because they absorb some colors of light and reflect the rest
color
How’s some minerals break along smooth flat lines instead of randomly like when you crack an egg
cleavage
When you try to scratch a rock with different object like a fingernail or a penny
scratch test
Surface erosion weathering rapid Jurassic slow changes landslide volcano magnetic
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A naturally formed combination of minerals and other natural materials
rocks
A solid naturally forms 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
From from contact sediment
igneous
Rock form from existing Rocky and pressure calls the minerals to form new combinations or new crystals
Metamorphic
Magma molten rock within Earth pressure is like a push or squeeze in that pressure helps turn into rocks in the Earth rock cycle this continuous process of change in which new rocks are formed from old rock materials
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