Unit B - Rocks and Minerals (Vocab)
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Natural resource
Resource that comes from nature
Renewable resource
Resources that we can use forever
Non-renewable resource
Resources that will run out sometime
Luster
Shininess
Crystal shape
Shape of crystal sample of a mineral
Property
Nature of the material
Crystalline structure
The regular pattern of atoms, molecules or ions in a crystal
Geologist
Someone who studies the earth
Mineral
A naturally occurring (solid) material that has a specific chemical composition and crystal form and characteristic physical properties
Hardness
A property of objects, commonly measured on the Mohs scale, which rates hardness on a scale of 1 to 10
Model
A representation of a system or its components, to help one study and understand how it works