A feature or a quality.

The way a mineral reflects light. 

The color the mineral leaves on a plate when scratched. 

This is used to describe the hardness of rocks and minerals. 

Describes how a mineral breaks; a property of minerals that split along a smooth surface. 

A solid, nonliving material made up of one or more minerals. 

A handheld tool that makes objects look larger; also known as a magnifying glass. 

This type of rock forms when melted rock cools and hardens. 

The melted rock below Earth's surface. 

Melted rock that reaches the surface and flows from volcanoes.

This type of rock forms from small pieces of other rocks; they often contain fossils. 

Small, loose bits of rock that have been broken down by wind and water. 

This type of rock forms from other rocks that have been changed by heat and pressure. 

The process of breaking down rock into smaller pieces.

The process of picking up small pieces of rock and moving it to a new place.

Huge sheets of ice that move slowly over land. As they move, they pick up pieces of rock. 

A force that pulls objects down toward the center of Earth.

Something found in nature that is useful to people 

A material people burn to get energy 

These formed from the remains of living things, both plants and animals, that died millions of years ago 

Minerals, rocks, oil, coal, and natural gas are natural resources that cannot be easily replaced. 

Plants, animals, water, wind, the sunlight are natural resources that can be replaced in our lifetime 

Energy used from blowing wind; the turning blades spin a generator to make electricty 

Energy from the sunlight by the use of solar panels 

A mineral that is found in sand used for making computer chips and other products

A mineral used in fertilizer, found in phosphate rock, which is a sedimentary rock 

This sedimentary rock is formed from shells that is used to build roads in Florida

A sphere of hot gases that gives off its own light and heat. 

A large group of stars, dust, and gases held together by gravity. 

The galaxy in which our sun belongs to, shaped like a spiral. 

The distance light travels in one year; 300,000 kilometers per second. 

This is made up of our sun, our planets, and all the other objects that orbit around it. 

This is a large body with a spherical or ball-like shape that orbits a star. 

One complete turn of one object around another object; such as Earth's movement around the sun. 

The imaginary line running through the North Pole to the South Pole on a planet. 

The spinning of a planet on its axis. 

The following planets- Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars. 

The following planets;Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. 

A natural object that revolves around a planet. 

Pieces of space rock that are too small to be a planet or a dwarf planet, but still revolve around the sun. 

A large clump of ice, dust, and small rock particles that has tail and orbits the sun. 

Pieces of rock or dust in space that comes from asteroids or comets. 

A streak of light produced when a meteoroid enters a planet's atmosphere. 

A meteoroid that lands on Earth. 

This tool makes objects that are far away look much closer. 

This is a force that pulls objects toward each other. 

This is a push or a pull.

The movement of energy through space.

The ability to makes things move or change. 

A huge ball of gas that gives off its own light

To move in a path around another object. 

An imaginary line that stretches from the middle of Earth. 

To spin. 

A group of stars that seem to form a shape or pattern. 

To bounce back. 

The different shapes of the moon that we see from Earth. 

This appears when the bright side of the moon faces away from Earth. 

When we see the whole sunlit half of the moon from Earth. 

When we see half of the sunlit side of the moon from Earth. 

When we see less than half of the moon's bright side. 

When the visible part of the moon is growing larger each night. 

When the visible part of the moon is growing smaller each night.