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What is inorganic?
it was never part of a living thing
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What is streak?
The color of a mineral's powder.
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What is cleavage?
A property describing a mineral that splits easily along flat surfaces.
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What is a geode?
A hollow rock lined with mineral crystals.
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What is large crystals?
What forms when magma cools slowly deep beneath the surface.
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What is a crystal?
When the particles of a mineral line up in a repeating pattern and forms a solid.
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What is luster?
How light is reflected from a mineral's surface.
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What is fracture?
Describes how a mineral looks when it breaks apart in an irregular way.
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What is Magma?
Molten material from inside the Earth that harden to form rock.
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What is a vein?
A narrow channel or slab of a mineral that is different from the surrounding rock.
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What is Definite Chemical Composition?
A mineral that always contains certain elements in definite proportions.
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What is color?
An easily observed physical property that is often not enough to identify a mineral.
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What are crystal systems?
When crystals of each mineral grow atom by atom.
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What is Lava?
Magma that reaches the surface.
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What is crystallization?
The process by which atoms are arranged to form a material with a crystal structure.
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What is naturally occurring?
When a substance is formed by processes in the natural world.
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What is mass divided by volume?
The formula for density.
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What is fluorescence?
A special property of some minerals that allows it to glow in ultraviolet light.
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What is a solution?
A mixture in which one substance is dissolved in another.
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What is small crystals
What forms if magma erupts to the surface and becomes lava that cools quickly.
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What is it was formed from the remains of plants, lacks a crystal structure and has no definite chemical composition.
The reason why coal is NOT a mineral.
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Who is Moh
Austrian mineral expert who designed a test to describe the hardness of minerals.
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What is magnetism?
A special property of magnetite that attracts iron.
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What is by evaporation?
How salt crystals form.
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Who is Ms. Comforti
The best teacher in the whole wide world for playing with you this lesson?
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