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- describes the way a mineral reflects light from its surface.
- luster
- metamorphic rock such as slate and gneiss whose mineral grain flattens and line up in parallel layers.
- foliate
- nonrenewable resource such as oil and coal formed over millions of years from the remains of dead plants and other organisms.
- fossil fuels
- large ancient landmass that was composed of all the continents jonied together
- Pangaea
- surface along which rocks move when they pass their elastic limit and break.
- fault
- large circular shaped opening formed when the top of a volcano collapses
- caldera
- negatively charged particle in the nucleus of an atom.
- electron
- anything that has mass and takes up space.
- matter
- characteristics that can be obseved using the 5 senses without changing or trying to change the composition of a substance.
- physical property
- an element that has characteristics of both metals and nonmetals and is a solid at room temperature
- metalloid