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When you look at a rock and see different colors, those colors are minerals .The pressure and heat causes the minerals in the rock to change into different minerals which cause the different colors in the rocks.
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What acts on mountains or rocks to change their size height or surface?
Erosion
Can rocks and minerals change?
Sure. They can be broken down to form sand. Under intense heat and pressure, they can change to metamorphic rock.
How are minerals linked to plate tectonics?
Minerals Make up rocks, Which make up the layers of the Earth(Crust, Lithosphere, asthenosphere, and Mantle)(Minerals make up the inner and outter core). The layers of the earth(crust) make up plate tectonics; convection currents and Plates(made of rock)
Is cleavage splitting of rocks in definite surfaces?
Cleavage is the splitting of rocks or minerals along defined surfaces.
What is the occurrence of quartz?
*volcanic rocks*jewelry*mountains
Why do rocks have different colors?
Rocks have different colors because some rocks contain different minerals. the rocks
What kind of minerals are the cascade mountains made up of?
Rocks, Dirt, Soil, Minerals
How can minerals come in many colors?
how many rocks are thera
Can minerals come in many colors?
how many rocks are thera
Why can sand be different colors?
Sand can be different colors because they are made out of shells,rocks,and minerals
What is Florence Bascom known for?
she was best known for study mountains rocks and minerals.
Oxidaton changes what about the minerals and rocks?
Minerals and rocks do change. In fact they change everyday, but it takes hundreds and millions of years till it's noticible.
When temperature and pressure change what happens to the minerals in the rocks?
They can change into coal
When temperature and pressure change what can happen to the minerals and rocks?
They can change into coal
Why do mountains have fresh water?
Because they use springs from underground that are somehow filtered by the minerals from the rocks.
Do rocks and minerals ever change?
Yes, but (usually) slowly.
How does carbonic acid weather rocks?
Carbonic Acid can change the chemical composition of minerals and rocks.
