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What is a mineral?
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A naturally occurring, inorganic solid that has a crystal structure and definite chemical composition.
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What does inorganic mean?
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a substance that was formed from NOT living things.
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What is a crystal?
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a solid that in which the atoms are arranged in a patter that repeats again and again.
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What is a streak?
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A streak is the color of a mineral's powder.
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What is Mohs's hardness scale?
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scale that ranks minerals from softest to hardest.
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What is cleavage?
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A minerals ability to split easily along flat surfaces.
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What is geode?
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A hollow rock inside, mineral crystal have grown
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What is crystalization?
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The process by which atoms are arranged to form material with a crystal structure.
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What are rock-forming minerals?
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One of the common minerals that make up most of the rocks of Earth's crust.
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What is granite?
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Usually light-colored igneous rock-found in continental crust.
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What is basalt?
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A dark, dense, igneous rock with fine texture, found in oceanic crust.
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What is igneous rock?
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Type of rock-forms from cooling of molten rock (magma or lave)
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What is sedimentary rock?
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A type of rock-forms when many substances are cemented together.
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What is metamorphic rock?
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Type of rock-forms from existing rock, changed by heat, pressure, chemical reactions
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What is extrusive rock?
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Igneous rock-forms from lava
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What is intrusive rock?
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Igneous rock-forms when magma hardens
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What is sediment?
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Small solid pieces of material - come from rock or organisms
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What is erosion?
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Destructive process in which water win loosens - carries away fragments of rock.
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What is deposition?
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Process by which sediment settles out of water - wind that is carrying it
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CL – when does malice aforethought exist? (4 states of mind)
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If there are no facts reducing the killing to voluntary manslaughter or excusing (i.e., giving rise to defense) and it was committed w/ one of the following states of mind:
[1] Intent to kill; [2] intent to inflict great bodily injury; [3] reckless indifference to an unjustifiably high risk of human life (abandoned/malignant/depraved heart); or [4] intent to commit a felony (felony murder) |
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What is cementation?
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Process - dissolved minerals crystalize, glue particles of sediment together in one mass.
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What is a rock cycle?
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Series of processes on surface/inside earth - slowly changes rocks from one kind to another.
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What is cementation?
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Process - dissolved minerals crystalize, glue particles of sediment together in one mass.
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What is a rock cycle?
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Series of processes on surface/inside earth - slowly changes rocks from one kind to another.
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