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| A naturally occuring, inorganic solid that has a crystal structere and a definite chemical compositon |
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| Not formed from living things or the remains of living things |
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| A solid in which the atoms are arranged in pattern that repeats again and again |
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| The color of a mineral's powder |
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| The way a mineral reflects light from its surface |
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| A scale ranking ten minerals from softest to hardest; used in testing the hardness of minerals |
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| A mineral's abilty to split easlily along flat surfaces |
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| The way a mineral looks when it breaks apart in an irregular way |
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| A usually light-colored igneous rock that is found in continental crust |
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| A dark, dense , igneos rock with a fine texture found in oceanic crust |
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| The particals of minerals or other rocks that give a rock its texture |
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| The look and fell of a rock's surface determined by size, shape, and pattern of a rock's grain |
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| A type of rock that forms from the cooling of molten rock at or below the surface |
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| A type of rock that forms when particels from other rocks or the remains of plants and animals are pressed and cemented together |
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| A type of rock that forms from an existing rock that is changed by heat, pressure, or chemical reactions |
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| An igneous rock layer formed when magma hardens beneath Earths surface |
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| An igneous rock layer formed when lava flows onto earths surface and hardens |
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| A material found that is formed from the elements oxygen and silicon |
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| The process by which water, ice, wind, or gravity movers weathered rock or soil |
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| process in which sediment is laid downing new locations |
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| The process by which dissovled minerals crystallize and glue particles of sediment together into one mass |
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| The process by which sediments are pressed together under their own weight |
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| Term used to describe metamorphic rocks that have grains arranged in parallel layers or bands. |
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