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All minerals are naturally formed,inorganic solid,crystals and have the same chemical composition.
What are the four characteristics do all minerals share?
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Is naturally occurring solid mixture of one or more minerals or organic matter.
What is a rock?
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Outermost layer of the earth, and it is the thinnest layer of the earth.
What is the crust?
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Pieces of the lithosphere that move around on top of the asthenosphere.
What is a tectonic plate?
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These can be performed in identifying minerals such as streak,color,luster,cleavage,fracture,density,hardness.
What are the seven different tests that can be performed in identifying minerals?
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Series of process in which a rock forms, changes from one type to another, is destroyed, and forms again by geological processes.
What is the rock cycle?
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Much thicker than the crust and contains most of the earth's mass.
What is the mantle?
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Is the hypothesis that states that the continents once formed a single landmass, broke up, drifted to their present locations.
What is continental drift?
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Diamond and quart can scratch calcite.
What are the two minerals that can scratch Calcite?
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Igneous rock goes through weathering and erosion then turns into a sediment. Sediments goes through compaction and cementation and becomes sedimentary rock.
How to create a sedimentary rock.
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It is the liquid layer the earth's core.
What is the outer core?
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Pangaea
What is the name of the supercontinent?
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Igneous rock go through heat and pressure then turns into metamorphic rock.
How to create a metamorphic rock.
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It is the solid, dense center of our planet.
What is the inner core?
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What is the process of sea floor spreading at the mid ocean ridge?
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Metamorphic rocks melt and turns into magma. Magma cools and turns into igneous rock.
How to create an igneous rock.
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Lithosphere, asthenosphere , mesosphere, outer and inner core.
What are the five physical layers of the Earth?
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The ocean floor is new at the mid ocean ridge. The ocean is old at the,trench.
Where is the ocean floor new and old?
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