Rocks and Minerals
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- Sedimentary rocks
- Sediments get deposited, compressed, and lithified into
- Lava
- Magma that flows out onto Earth's surface
- Extrusive
- Fine-grained igneous rocks that cool quickly on Earth's surface
- Erosion
- The transport of pieces of rock by wind, water, or glaciers
- Weathering
- ________ is the break up of rocks such as frost wedging or wave action
- Magma
- Molten rock inside Earth's crust
- hardness
- A measure of how easily a mineral can be scratched
- Streak
- Color of a mineral when it is broken up and powdered
- Sediments
- Pieces of a solid material that are deposited by water, wind or glaciers
- Metamorphism
- Whens rocks undergo heat and pressure without melting
- Igneous rock
- Rock formed by crystallization of magma
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- How many types of minerals are found in the Earth's crust
- Contact, regional, and hydrothermal
- Three ways metamorphic rocks are formed
- Intrusive
- Coarse-grained igneous rocks that cool slowly beneath the Earth's surface are called
- Alignment of minerals
- What is lineation
- Basalt
- What rock is not resistant to weathering
- Chemical composition and crystal structure
- Minerals are defined in...