Rocks and Minerals Vocab

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How something feels

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Texture

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Found in nature; not a plant or animal.

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Minerals

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A fire-made rock formed when melted rock cools.

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igneous rock

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Characteristics describing minerals, e.g., rough, streak.

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attributes

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Scale rating mineral hardness

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Moh's Scale

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Mineral shine level

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Luster

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Found in nature, non-living, made from minerals

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Soil

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Mark left on something from a mineral

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streak

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Type of rock formed from sand, mud, and pebbles at the bottom of water bodies.

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sedimentary rock

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Orderly, 3D pattern of ions/atoms in a solid

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crystal