Properties
What is one of the easiest things to observe about a mineral?
Its color.
What is a mineral?
Chemically composited solid.
What minerals contain silicon and oxygen
Quartz and Mica
Mineral
A solid inorganic substance of natural occurrence
Color
The appearance of the mineral
What is the way a mineral splits in half smoothly?
Cleavage
What do silicate minerals have?
Oxygen & Silicon
What are the three most abundant elements found in Earth's crust that combine to form minerals
oxygen, silicon, aluminum
Crystal
A piece of a homogeneous solid substance having a natural geometrically regular form with symmetrically arranged plane faces
What key characteristics will you only find in metamorphic rocks?
Banding Rocks
What is the way a mineral breaks along a curved surface?
A fracture
What do you call a person who studies minerals?
Mineralogist
What are the 2 main ways that minerals are classified
chemicalmakeup and how they are used
Luster
A gentle sheen or soft glow, especially that of a part of reflective surface
3rd characteristics of a mineral
is the substance of a solid in crystalline form
What is a mineral's ability to glow under ultraviolet light?
How do you test the color of a mineral?
A Streak.
Which scale is used to measure mineral hardness
Mohs hardness scale
Fracture
A discontinuity or random break in a rock mass
4th characteristics
Does it have a consistent chemical composition
What mineral has the property of being salty?
Halite
What is a fracture?
Minerals that break along curved or irregular surfaces.
Classify what number Keyshun Barnes Rocks
22
Silicon-oxygen tetradon
The basic structural unit of all silicate minerals
list all characteristics of minerals in order
- Is it inorganic
- Does it occur naturally
- Is it a crystalline solid
- Does it have a consistent chemical composition