Rocks and Minerals

What is a Mineral?

• A solid substance made of one or more minerals

• A solid material formed in nature in Earth's crust with its own properties

• A type of rock formed from layers of sediment

• A property of a mineral that describes how it appears when it reflects light

What is weathering?

• Dropping or settling of eroded material

• Small pieves of rock, sand, and silt carried away by wind, water, or ice

• The process by which rocks and other surfaces are broken down.

• A resource that can be replaced in a reasonable amount of time

A property used to describe how easily a mineral breaks apart along smooth surfaces

• Cleavage

• Hardness

• Luster

• Erosion

A property of a mineral that describes how easily it can be scratched

• Streak

• Rock

• Sediment

• Hardness

A property of a mineral that describes how it appears when it reflects light

• Mineral

• Weathering

• Luster

• Deposition

The process by which rock, soil, and other weathered earth materials are moved from one place to another

• Erosion

• Weathering

• Deposition

• Resources

Dropping or settling of eroded material

• Sediment

• Mineral

• Cleavage

• Deposition

The color of the powder of a mineral when it is rubbed on a streak plate

• Sediment

• Igneous Rock

• Metamorphic Rock

• Streak

What is a rock?

• Dropping or settling of eroded material

• A solid material formed in nature in Earth's crust with its own properties

• A solid substance made of one or more minerals

• A loose top layer of Earth's surface mad eof weather rock and organic matter

A type of rock that forms from cooled magma or lava

• Sediment

• Igneous Rock

• Metamorphic Rock

• Sedimentary Rock