| Minerals | The rock cycle | Earth's layers | Tectonic plates |
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Solid, nonliving, crystalline structure, formed in nature
What are four characteristics that all minerals share?
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Cooling, melting, heat and pressure, compaction and cementation, weathering and erosion
What are the five processes that occur during the rock cycle?
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LAMOI
What is mrs. Masa's dog's name?
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Asthenosphere
Which layer of earth do tectonic plates move on?
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Luster, streak, cleavage and fracture, hardness, special properties, color
List the seven things that can be used to classify a mineral.
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Fine grained igneous rock cools quickly on earth's surface but coarse grained cools slowly under earth's surface.
Igneous rock can be fine grained or coarse grained. Explain how their FORMATION is different.
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Core, crust, and mantle
What are the three composition layers of earth?
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Convergent, divergent, transform
What are the three types of tectonic plate boundaries?
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Moh's hardness scale is a scale that tells you the hardness of certain minerals.
What is Moh's hardness scale?
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Heat and pressure
What process forms metamorphic rock?
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Lithosphere, asthenosphere, mesosphere, outer core, inner core.
What are the 5 layers of the earth by physical properties?
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They move away from each other
How do divergent boundaries move?
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You scratch the mineral with a mineral that you know the hardness of. If your mineral gets scratched then your mineral's hardness is lower than the mineral that you scratched it with.
How do you use Moh's hardness scale?
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Sedimentary rock is formed on Earth's surface.
Where is sedimentary rock formed?
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Continental crust is under land and is thicker than oceanic crust which can be found under water.
What is the difference between continental and oceanic crust?
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They move towards each other and then they crash.
How do convergent boundaries move?
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Metamorphic rock, igneous rock, sedimentary rock.
What are the three types of rocks?
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The theory of continental drift is the theory by Alfred Wegner that the continents were once one big continent, known as Pangea, and continental drift caused the continents to slowly drift a part.
What is the theory of continental drift?
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They rub against each other.
How do transform boundaries move?
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