Rocks: Mineral Mixtures... Section 1:Understanding Rock • What exactly is rock?. –A solid mixture of crystals of one or more minerals, that range in all sizes from pebbles to formation
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Mixtures
Trang 2Section 1:
Understanding Rock
• What exactly is rock?
–A solid mixture of crystals
of one or more minerals,
that range in all sizes from pebbles to formations that are thousands of kilometers
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as hammers, spears, knives, and
scrapers
roads, and monuments
ancient and modern civilizations
discover the history of life on Earth
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Ancient Civilization Rock Structure
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constantly changing shape and
composition.
the type of rock that it is.
igneous, sedimentary, and
metamorphic