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| Not organic, thus not part of a life form or made by a living thing or former life forms |
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| The pattern or arrangement of atoms that characterize each material, also known as atomic structure |
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| The shine from an unweathered minerals surface, or the way a mineral looks in unreflected light |
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| The scratch ability of a mineral, how easy it breaks |
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| The tendency of a mineral to brake along the zones of weakness and form smooth to semi smooth parallel lines |
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| The way in which a mineral breaks producing an uneven breaking surface |
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| The outward 3d shape or geometric shape of a mineral specimen that reflects the internal atomic structure (crystal form) |
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| The color of any finely crushed residue or powder of an mineral |
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| The roughness or smoothness of a surface |
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| An individual grain of the mineral crystals |
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| Rocks that can from directly from sediments deposited near earths surface by the process of cementation, precipitation or minerals, loss of water and compaction |
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| Clastic sedimentary rocks |
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| Rocks that are largely composed of solid sediments, like sand in sandstone |
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| Chemical sedimentary rocks (evaporites) |
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| A rock composed of interconnected crystals or just one mineral that formed by evaporation and/or precipitation or dissolved minerals |
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| Precipitation of minerals |
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| A type of sediment deposition in which dissolved minerals come out of solution to form solids as in the formation of chemical sedimentary rocks |
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| And earthy material at was composed of and/or was formed by life forms |
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| Bioclastic sedimentary rock |
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| Any rock made by living organisms or mostly composed of materials from life forms, called organic sedimentary |
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| Any physical evidence of form life, direct or indirect |
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| A rock formed when natural, molten rock forming (magma or lava) cools and turns into a solid-above or below the earths surface |
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| Liquid rock between the earths solid surface q |
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| Intrusive (plutonic) igneous rock |
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| Formed when magma solidifys below the earths surface |
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| Formed when. Lava solidifies on or above the earths surface |
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| Rocks that form from changes in previously existing rocks due to hea, pressure, and or mineral fluids without weathering/melting |
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| The process of forming metamorphic rocks |
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| Texture of a metamorphic rock caused by the layering of mineral crystals |
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| When old metamorphic rocks contacts with magma or lava and alter the older rock |
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| Process of forming large metamorphic rocks due to an increase in pressure and temperature |
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| A naturally occurring, crystalline solid having a somewhat definite chemical composition and physical and chemical properties |
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| Earth materials that people need, including mineral rocks and fossil fuels |
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| A model of internal relationships of the different rock types |
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