Earth Flashcards
earth (20 cards)
physical properties
any property that can be observed using the five senses.
weight/mass
weight - how heavy an object is (mass) mass is how much stuff (matter) something is made of.
solid
a state of matter that maintains its own shape instead of conforming to the shape of its container.
Liquid
That can flow and takes shape of its container like water or juice but it has a fit amount of space volume similar to how a solid stays in the same size
Conduct
It allows something like he or electricity to flow or pass through it easily
Heat
Energy that moves from something hot to something called a form of energy
Minerals
A substance found in nature minerals make up rocks
Hardness
How easily or different it is to scratch a minerals surface
Streak
The color of its powder or when you rub it on a hard rough surface like a tile.
Tiles
Play colored powder left Behind when a middle is scratched across a hard surface like a ceramic tile which helps identify the minerals by its streak color
Color
It’s play reflects back to your eyes minerals are colored because they absorb.
Luster
How shiny a rock or a mineral looks when light shines on it like a mirror or glass or even dull
Cleavage
Have some minerals break along smooth flat lines instead of randomly like when you crack a egg
Scratch test
Where you try to stretch a rock with different objects like a fingernail or a penny to see it’s harder stopped
Rocks
A natural and other natural minerals
Minerals
A solid naturally formed substance that always has the same composition and the same properties
Sediment
The dirt and stuff that settles to the bottom of liquids or is carried and then deposited by water wind or ice
Sedimentary rock
Rock formed play from some patch sediment
Metamorphic rock
Rock formed from existing rock heat and pressure cause the minerals for two more new rock
Ignius
Rockformed from magma or lava
