Chapter 13 Vocabulary Madison Cortez

A naturally occurring solid mixture of one or more minerals or organic matter.

A solid, naturally occurring, crystalline object with a defined chemical composition.

Minerals that contain silicon and oxygen and usually one or more other elements.

A surface along which a mineral clearly splits.

Most abundant mineral in Earth's crust.

Black with short stubby crystals, and usually striated lengthwise.

Composed of a silicon-oxygen compound called silicon dioxide or silica.

The second most abundant mineral in Earth's crust.

A scale ranking ten minerals from softest to hardest used in testing the hardness of minerals.

Formed from solidification and crystallizing of a cooling magma.

Formed by the cementing and sedimentation of sediment.

Formed when other rocks are heated and applied with pressure.

A series of processes on the surface and inside Earth that slowly changes rocks from one kind to another.

A type of rock that forms when particles from other rocks or the remains of plants and animals are pressed and cemented together.

Able to be molded, altered, or bent.

The process by which atoms are arranged to form a material with a crystal structure.

One additional crystal which causes all solute to crystallize out of the supersaturated solution since they are unstable.

A dark dense igneous rock with a fine texture found in oceanic crust.

A usually light colored igneous rock that is found in continental crust.

Igneous rock that forms from lava on Earth's surface.

Igneous rock that forms when magma hardens beneath Earth's surface.

Process in which pressure from upper layers of sediment pushes down on the lower layers, causing the sediments to stick together and form solid rock.

The process by which dissolved minerals crystallize and glue particles of sediment together into one mass.

Clay and fine silt.

Sand particles that you can see and feel form.

A lumpy rock made of round gravel.

Low temperature Low pressure.

High temperature Low pressure.

Low temperature High Pressure.

The process of pressure morphing rock beds, which may result in repetitive layering patterns.