Minerals
What are minerals?
Minerals are solid earth material made of one thing.
If a mineral is hard it can be scratched by a lot of different materials, true or false?
False
If I would make a clothing dye from a rose what property or characteristic of the rose would make it good for making dye?
Its color
What is the hardest mineral?
Diamonds.
In the passage that we read, what is the author talking about?
Minerals
If I am talking about Calcite, Graphite, Fluorite, and Gypsum what am I talking about?
a. Tv shows
b. Jewlery
c. Minerals
d. Different types of soda
c. Minerals
If one mineral can be soft, another medium-hard, and a third, very hard what does that say about minerals.
There are all different and have different properties.
What other purpose can diamonds be used for other than jewelry?
Hard tools such as drills and saws.
How do we test the hardness of a mineral?
We scratch it with different objects and see if it leaves a permanent mark.
if I look at many different shoes I can tell that they all have different properties.
What is the word they referring to in this sentence?
the shoes.