Properties of Minerals
What is fracture?
When a mineral breaks unevenly; when it shatters into uneven pieces.
Where is the best place to grow a flower?
In the topsoil.
What does Esau's name mean?
Hairy.
Why did God not accept Cain's offering?
Cain didn't offer his best food; he just offered what was decent.
What is the difference between luster and color?
Luster is how light reflects off a mineral; color is just the color of a mineral.
What does it mean if something is organic?
It is made of things that were once alive.
Why was it important that Abraham built an altar to God by a big tree?
There might have been other idols to fake gods there.
What item did Isaac carry up the mountain?
Wood.
What is a mineral?
The orderly arrangement of particles in a substance.
Core.
Mantle.
Crust.
What two kinds of things were in Pharaoh's dream?
Cows and corn.
What kind of sentence ends with a question mark?
Interrogative.
If you want to find the streak of a mineral, what do you do?
Rub the mineral against a streak plate and observe the color it creates.
What is sediment?
Small bits of weathered rock.
Fluorite has a Mohs Hardness Rating of 4. Corundum has a hardness rating of 9. What would happen if you scratched corundum with fluorite?
Because fluorite isn't as hard, it would not be able to scratch corundum.
What is the difference between lava and magma?
Magma is underground; lava is aboveground.