Topic 11B

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Anything related to living organisms or to things that were alive.

The color of finely crushed residue or powder of a mineral

Earth materials such as, minerals, rocks, and fossil fuels, are grouped together as this

A model used to show how rock types (sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic) are interrelated

Individual grains of minerals

Rocks that form from changes in previously existing rocks due to heat, pressure, and or mineral fluids without weathering or melting

A process in which older rocks are transformed by an increase in temperature and pressure to createa series of metamorphic rocks. The rocks are often highly folded (bent) and faulted

Rocks that form from an accumulation of sediments from preexisting rocks and/or organic materials