rocks and minerals vocab Flashcards by Emma Hurne | Brainscape

Q

What is a mineral?

A

Any natural occurring, inorganic solid

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Fracture

A

breaking into random pieces, no pattern

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Cleavage

A

breaking into a clear pattern, flat sides

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Silicon-oxygen tetrahedron

A

atoms are bonded like a pyramid

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Clastic

A

pieces, fragments

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Bioclastic

A

pieces/fragments from life

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Fossil

A

any evidence of past life

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Magma

A

liquid rock underground

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Lava

A

liquid rock above ground

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Intrusive

A

igneous rock that stays inside the earth

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Extrusive

A

igneous rock that exits the earth

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Vesicular

A

bubble holes, gas pockets

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Contact Metamorphism

A

only what gets touched gets changed

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Regional metamorphism

A

an entire area changes

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Foliation

A

wavy layers

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Rock Cycle

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any rock can become any other rock