Across
- 4. The size, shape, and arrangement of grains or crystals
- 5. Metals have a _______ luster.
- 7. solid, nonliving substance that is found in nature
- 9. mixture of minerals, weathered rock, water, air, and humus
- 10. Moving rocks and minerals from one place to the next.
- 13. The diamond is a ____ on the Mohs scale.
- 16. how light bounces off a mineral
- 18. All rocks are made up of ____________.
- 19. Loam soil is the best soil for growing _______.
- 21. Holds very little water
- 22. Soil with the smallest grains
- 24. ________ resource is a material on Earth that is necessary or useful to people.
- 26. The softest mineral
- 28. A mountain in Georgia
Down
- 1. Soil ______ describes how big the pieces of grain of soil are
- 2. Bit of decayed plays and animals that add nutrients to soil
- 3. Breaking down rocks into smaller pieces
- 6. This tells you how easily a mineral can be scratched
- 8. Most minerals come in one ________.
- 11. Talc is a ____ on the Mohs scale.
- 12. Darker soil has more _______ than lighter soil.
- 14. Georgia's coastal plains have many ____ because of the loam soil there.
- 15. Minerals that are not shiny have a _____ luster.
- 17. Stone Mountain is formed mainly of _______.
- 20. Soil made up of sand, silt, and clary
- 23. Darker soil, or ______ soil, has more humus.
- 25. The hardest mineral
- 26. Soil has _____ different layers.
- 27. nonliving material made of one or more minerals