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What is the hardness of marble?
Marble Rocks range from 4 to 5 on the Mohs scale
What is the difference between relative ages of and relative position of rocks?
Age is how old the rock is relative to other rocks, position is where the rock is in relation to other rocks. Tectonic motion and other forces can easily turn a portion of the Earths crust upside down resulting in older rock lying above younger layers.
How well do a mineral resist scratching?
hardness.
What is the dating system that describes only the order in which rocks where formed?
Relative dating. (do your own study island)
What is salts hardness on the hardness scale?
The Mohs hardness of sodium chloride is 2,5.
What properties do all rocks have?
Rocks have color, grain, specific density, and relative hardness.
A scale used to measure the hardness of rocks?
The Mohs scale is used to determine the relative hardness of minerals.
What is the word used to describe the relative hardness of minerals?
The Mohs Scale is what is used to measure the relative hardness, or scratch resistance, of minerals. Mohs hardness often agrees with absolute hardness, which is another way of measuring the relative hardness of minerals.
Why do rocks have different hardness?
it has to do with the hardness of the mineral which can be found by moh's scale of hardness
Moh's hardness scale is relative measure of what physical property?
Hardness of a mineral - the answer in in the title "Moh's hardness scale".
What property of minerals is classified by the Mohs scale?
Relative hardness is the property of minerals that uses the Mohs scale for classification.
Rocks are foliated or nonfoliated depending on their?
hardness]
What is the scale of hardness for rocks?
Mohs scale.
How can you tell rocks apart?
You can tell rocks apart by its hardness, cleavage, and streak
What does Mohs Scale test?
Relative mineral hardness.
Which scale is used to measure the hardness of mineral?
The Mohs scale is used to determine the relative hardness of minerals.
Why did friedrich mohs invent mohs hardness scale?
This scale is a chart of relative hardness of the various minerals
