Minerals
The least usable identification method for classifying minerals
Color
Solutions that form minerals are almost always solutions of what?
Melted rock under the earth's surface
Magma
What gets bigger the more you take away?
A hole
Name one of the two kinds of dog that Mr. Dowd's puppy is
[DOUBLE POINTS IF YOU CAN NAME BOTH]
Staffie and Corgi
Scientists observe which 2 properties of minerals to classify/identify formation of minerals?
Physical and Chemical
How and where are veins formed?
Underground, water heated by magma causes crystallization that fills in the cracks of underground rock
Atoms come together to form solids who's particles create repeating patterns
Crystallization
I will fill up a room but I take up no space, what am I?
Light
The particles that make up the structure of mineral crystals are known as what?
Atoms
How does evaporation cause mineral formation?
When water evaporates it leaves behind dissolved elements that "sink" and come together to form solid, crystal formations
Amethyst that has grown into a beautiful shade of purple through the inside of a rock is a common kind of what?
Geode
What can you make but never hold or see?
Noise
Calcite stones and limestone forming in the ocean is a result of which two processes?
Evaporation/Precipitation
Which contains more dissolved material, Salt Water or Fresh Water?
Salt Water
Aluminum Foil, Iron Crow Bars, Gold Chains and Nitrate Cleaning Solutions all come from what kinds of rocks?
Ores
I'm not in Venus or Neptune, but you can find me in Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Earth and Uranus. What am I?
The letter "R"
Intrusive rocks melt, causing certain elements to crystallize and form minerals at extremely high temperatures. This process happens where?
Underground
What is an example you have seen at the beach that is mineral formation due to evaporation/precipitation?
Sandstone, Limestone or Calcite rocks that sit near the coastline
Fracking, a commonly argued practice, is the destruction of ground/land for the purpose of extracting useful materials to sell. Fracking is the process of what?
Mining (Searching/Digging) for Ore
What four-letter word can be written the same way backwards, forwards or upside down?
NOON