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What is one difference in how rocks and minerals are classified?
A rock is made of 2 or more minerals, minerals make up rocks but rocks cannot make up minerals.
How are minerals and rocks similar?
Both are solid and naturally occurring materials with chemical compositions. They also make up the earth around us
Why are rocks red and yellow?
The color of rocks is determined by which minerals make up the rocks. Red minerals like iron-containing hematite would make a red colored rock and sulfur containing minerals would make yellow.
What types of minerals are clastic sedimentary rocks made of?
Clastic sedimentary rocks are made of broken pieces of preexisting rock that are compacted together. The mineral quartz makes up sixty percent of the clastic sedimentary rocks.
How do you make paint like the Lakota Sioux?
They make it with berry juice, ground up rocks, animal fat, and sometimes animal blood.
What types rocks make up plates?
Why cant you just look it up? Its granite btw
Why are there more different types of rocks then minerals?
Elements make up minerals, and minerals make up rocks. There are more combinations of minerals (themselves combinations) than elements.
What are the three types of rocks that make up the rock cycle?
Sedimentry>Metamorphic>Igneous
What two types of rocks make up the lithosphere?
There are actually three - metamorphic, igneous, and sedimentary
What are the 3 types of rocks that make up the earth's crust?
If I recall correctly, the answer is: igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary.
What landform make up Nepal?
Nepal is a landlocked country.
What landform and bodies of water make up transcaucasia?
H20 and stuff
Do sedimentary rocks have different types of rocks mixed in them?
Sedimentary rock does have different type of rock because when shells,sand, and soil pick up and become rock that combination can make 100 different types of rocks because of the minerals,size,and shape.
What landform makes up Texas?
what landform makes up texas
Do rocks have to have minerals?
"Minerals" are the compounds that make up rocks. A rock may have several types of minerals in it. Unless a rock is composed 100% of a single element, it contains minerals.
What type of material can make up sediments?
The types of material are: loose pieces of rocks, minerals, pieces of plant and animal remians.
What is a geology map?
A geology map is a map that, rather than showing the cities, roads and rivers in an area, shows the types of rocks that make up the area. There are different types of geology maps: a surficial geology map shows the rock types and soil types found right at the surface. A bedrock geology map shows the type of rocks that make up the solid rock underneath the soils and dirt at the surface.
