How a mineral reflects light is called?

When minerals break along smooth, flat surfaces, this is called the?

What are natural, nonliving, solid crystals that make up rocks?

All around the world, each mineral has the same chemical composition?

The way the surface of a mineral reflects like is called Luster.

A glassy luster is shiny.

What is the name for the hardness scale?

What is the hardest element on the hardness scale?

How easily the surface of a mineral can be scratched is the?

A mineral can scratch any mineral above it on the hardness scale?

What is the color of the powder that a mineral leaves when it is scratched across a special plate?

Each mineral has crystals of the same shape?

One way to identify certain minerals is by using a magnet?

Earth's crust is made of rocks.

Rocks can change form both above and below Earth's surface.

Rocks that form from molten rock are called sedimentary.

when magma cools quickly ___________________ crystals form.

when magma cools slowly, _____________________ crystals form.

What kind of rocks form when layers of sediments settle on top of one another and harden?

Sedimentary rocks when layers form on top of one another.

Click all the answers that apply. What moves sediments from one place to another?

Rocks that have changed as a result of heat and pressure are known as what kind of rock?

What is under the crust?

What comes out of a volcano?

What is a natural feature on Earth's surface?

Some landforms take shape quickly.

some landforms shape slowly.

click all the landforms

There are three types of weathering: chemical, physical, surgical

The process of Earth's crust being slowly broken into smaller pieces is?

A kind of weathering that causes rocks to change into different materials is

The weathering that breaks rocks into smaller rocks of the same kind is?

Temperature changes to a rock's surface may cause weathering?

Living things CANNOT cause weathering.

What is the process of carrying away weathered bits of rock?

When rocks are eroded and broken down, they can be carried away and put somewhere else. This is called?

The Earth is made of one solid piece.

We live on the crust.

Under the crust is the?

The Earth's plates move all the time.

What is a landform that forms at an opening in Earth's crust where magma reaches the surface?

Volcanoes have vents.

Ash from a volcano rarely changes the surrounding areas.

What is a break or crack in rocks where Earth's crust can move suddenly?

The area of most damage from an earthquake can be found at

What do you call the rapid downhill movement of water that is often very destructive?

A drought is an area with a lot of condensation.

3% of Earth's water is saltwater.

97% of Earth's water is saltwater.

Water exists as a solid, liquid, and ?

Any water that is above ground is ?

Why can't you drink saltwater? Check all that apply.

Any form of water that falls to Earth is

Check all the kinds of precipitation.

There are more than three steps of the water cycle.

The water cycle always begins at

What causes the water droplets to fall to Earth?

Water that falls to Earth can be stored in oceans.

During the water cycle, we lose water.

Temperature and Weather affect the water cycle.

A pattern of weather over a place for many years is the