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Mineral and Rock Identification
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What do you know about minerals? NATURALLY OCCURRING Inorganic SOLIDS Crystalline Structure
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How do minerals form? FROM MAGMA Fast cooling magma FROM SOLUTION Slow cooling magma Saturated solution Solid comes out
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How do you identify a mineral? COLOR red jasper iron purple amethyst ferric iron
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LUSTER how shiny
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STREAK color of powder HARDNESS copper penny iron nail glass plate
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CLEAVAGE breakage in one directions
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What are igneous rocks? sedimentary rocks? metamorphic rocks?
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How do you classify igneous rocks? INTRUSIVE EXTRUSIVE grain size texture mineral composition
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What are sedimentary rocks?
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What are the types and classifications of sedimentary rocks? COURSE GRAINED CLASTICS MEDIUM GRAINED CLASTICS FINE GRAINED CLASTICS
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What are organic sedimentary rocks? contain fossils or once living
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What are metamorphic rocks?
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What are the types and classifications of metamorphic rocks?
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TEXTURE nonfoliated granite What are the types and classifications of metamorphic rocks? SCHIST from MARBLE from foliated limestone
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