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2. | This compound contains useful amounts of metals |
3. | The most plentiful element in our world |
4. | color a mineral leaves when the mineral is rubbed on a white plate |
5. | can cary rocks long distances |
6. | melted rock found beneath the earth's surface |
8. | forms cube-shaped crystals |
9. | The hardness of a mineral is found by doing this test |
10. | rocks formed one of two ways, from molten magma or from red-hot lava |
11. | formed like gabbro and made up of quarts, mica, and feldspar |
12. | one of the things needed to make metamorphic rock |
13. | refers to breaking without cleavage |
17. | a rock formed by pieces of sand settling to the bottom of a body of water |
18. | Made up of only one kind of atom |
21. | one of the minerals found in granite |
22. | a rock formed from another rock under heat and pressure |
25. | The tendency of a mineral to split along straight surfaces, or planes |
26. | Also known as "characteristics" |
27. | this is crude oil |
28. | a volcanic rock that floats on water |
29. | A solid natural substance that does not come from anyuthing living |
35. | a rock that is formed from the remains of living things ... from ancient plants |