Ch 9 Vocab

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Solid that can form by a inorganic processes and that has a crystal structure and a definite chemical composition

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Mineral

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The repeating pattern of a mineral’s particles forms a solid called

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Crystal

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Mineral that must be able to form by materials that were not a part of living things

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Inorganic

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Streak

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Is the color of its powder

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Luster

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How light is reflected from a minerals surface

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Mohs hardness scale

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Is used to rank the hardness of minerals

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Cleavage

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A mineral that splits easily along flat surfaces had the property called

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How minerals look when it breaks apart in an irregular way

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Fracture

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Is a rounded , hollow rock that is often lined with mineral crystal

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Geode

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Atoms are arrange to form a mineral that has a crystal structure

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Crystallization

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A mixture in which one substance is dissolved in another

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Solution

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Vein

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Is a narrow channel or slab of mineral that is different from the surrounding rock

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Light colored rock that had a lower silica content

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Granite

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Is a dark - colored rock that has lower silica content than granite has

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Basalt

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Particles of minerals or other rocks which are called

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Grains

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Is the look and feel of rocks surface

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Texture

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Forms from the cooling of lava or magma

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Igneous

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Forms when small particles of rocks or the remain of animals or plants

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Sedimentary rock

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Forms when a rock is changed my heat or pressure

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Metamorphic Rock

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Extrusive Rock

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Formed from lava that erupted into Earths surface

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Intrusive rock

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Formed when magma hardened beneath the surface of Earth

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Rock Cycle

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Is a process that occur on Earths surface and in the crust mantle that slowly change rocks from one kind to another

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Thin , layering found in most metamorphic rocks

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Foliated

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Chemical rocks

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Forms when minerals dissolve in a water solution crystallize

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Organic Rock

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Remains of plants or animals are deposited in layers

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Clastic Rock

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Made up of broken pieces of other rocks

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Is solid pieces of material that come from rocks or living things

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Sediment

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The effects of freezing and thawing and other forces in Rock

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Weathering

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Erosion

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The process by which running water , wind , or ice carry way bits of broken up rock

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Deposition

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Is the process by which sediment settles out of the water or wind carting it

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The process that pressed sediments together

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Compaction

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Process with dissolve minerals crystallize and glue particles is sediment together

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Cementation