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Made in nature
Has a crystalline structure It is non-living It is a solid
What 4 characteristics do all minerals have?
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Heat and pressure, cooling, melting, weathering and erosion and compaction and cementaion.
What are the five processes of the rock cycle?
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Crust mantle and core
What are the three layers of the earth
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Convergent, divergent and transform
What are the three boundaries
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Hardness, color, special properties, luster, streak,density and cleavage and fracture
List the 7 different test that can be performed in identifying minerals.
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Fine grained is small pieces arranged in a pattern and coarse grained is big chunky pieces.
Igneous rock can be fine grained or coarse grained. Explain how the formation is different.
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Lithosphere, mesosphere, asthenosphere, inner core, outer core
What are the 5 layers of the earth
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It is a scale that ranks rocks on their hardness from hardest to softest
What is Moh's hardness scale?
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It forms inside the earth
Where is sedimentary rock formed.
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Continental is thinner and dry
What is the difference between oceanic crust and continental crust
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We take the rock and scratch it on the scratch board and if it scratches easily it is soft and if not it is hard
How do we use it?
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Igneous, metamorphic, sedimentary, sediment and magma
What are the 5 types of rocks
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Continental drift is when the supercontinent called PANGEA broke into pieces which mad continents
What is continental drift? What was the supercontinent called?
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He found animals that couldn't swim in different tempature continents.
How did wengner find evidence for Pangea with fossils
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