What are Elements and Compounds?
What are Minerals?
Ways to Identify Minerals
Properties of Crystals
How are Minerals Formed?
100
Smallest part of an element that can be identified as that element.
What is an atom?
100
Naturally occurring inorganic solid formed from elements or compounds and having a definite chemical makeup and regular atomic structure.
What is a mineral?
100
Observable characteristic that describes an object.
What is a physical property?
100
Tendency of some minerals to split along smooth, flat surfaces called planes.
What is cleavage?
100
Formation of crystals caused by cooling and evaporation.
What is crystallization?
200
Simple substance that cannot be broken down into simplier substances by ordinary means.
What is an element?
200
Formed from nonliving things or from the remains of nonliving things.
What is inorganic?
200
Color of the powder left by mineral.
What is streak?
200
There are this many basic crystal shapes.
What is six?
200
Process where liquid changes into a gas.
What is evaporation?
300
Substance made up of two or more elements that are chemically combined.
What is a compound?
300
In a rock, minerals are usually found this way.
What is as a mixture?
300
The way a mineral's surface reflects light.
What is luster?
300
Tendency of some minerals to break into pieces with uneven surfaces.
What is fracture?
300
Mixture where the particles of one substance are evenly mixed with the particles of another substance.
What is solution?
400
Smallest part of a substance that has all the properties of that substance.
What is a molecule?
400
The name for common minerals found in the Earth's crust.
What are rock-forming minerals?
400
Property that relates to how much a mineral resists being scratched.
What is hardness?
400
This is what scientists use to study crystal structure.
What are x-rays?
400
Compounds in crystal form.
What is minerals?
500
Formula that shows the elements that make up a compound.
What is a chemical formula?
500
Element that makes up almost half of the Earth's crust.
What is oxygen?
500
Acid tests helps identify minerals containing this.
What is calcium carbonate?
500
Solid substance with its atoms arranged in regular, three-dimensional pattern.
What is crystal
500
Occurs when elements and compunds leave a solution and crystallize out as solids.
What is precipitation?
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