What is a natural, usually inorganic solid that has a characteristic chemical composition, an orderly internal structure and a characteristic set of physical properties?
100
Name atleast two of the kinds of silicate mineral structures.
What is Isolated tetrahedral, Ring Silicates, Single-Chain Silicates, Double-Chain Silicates, Sheet Silicates, Framework Silicates
100
Describe the 3 nonsilicate structures
What is cube, hexagonal prisims, and irregular masses?
100
a negatively charged atom particle.
What is an electron?
100
an atom with the same number of protons, but a different number of neutrons
What is an isotope?
200
The kind of mineral that contains a combonation of silicon and oxygen.
What is a silicate mineral?
200
Describe a Ring Silicate mineral structure.
What is form rings by sharing oxygen atoms?
200
Name the 7 physical properties of minerals.
What is color, streak, luster, clevage/fracture, hardness, crystal shape, and density?
200
Has no charge.
What is a neutron?
200
a substance made of atoms of two or more elements joined by chemical bonds
What is a compound?
300
A mineral that does NOT contain a combonation of silicon and oxygen.
What is a nonsilicate mineral?
300
Decribe a Double Chain Silicate structure.
What is forms when two single chains bond together?
300
Name all of the special properties minerals can have.
What is fluorescence/phosporescense, chatoyancy/asterism, double refraction, and radioactivity?
300
Smallest unit of matter.
What is an atom?
300
group of atoms held together by chemical forces; smallest unit of matter that can retain a substances chemical properties
What is a molecule?
400
Name one example of a nonsilicate mineral.
What is Magnesium, Quartz, Ect.
400
Describe Framework mineral structure.
What is each tetrahedron is bonded to 4 others?
400
Describe matter.
What is anything that takes up space and has mass?
400
Chart of all the elements.
What is the periodic table of elements
400
shared or transfered in a chemical bond.
What is valence electrons?
500
Name one kind of a nonsilicate mineral.
What is Sulfates, Oxides, ect..
500
Isolated tetrahedrons link with silicon or oxygen atoms. True or false?
What is FALSE????
500
A positively charged atom particle.
What is a proton?
500
Protons and neutrons are in it.
What is the nucleus?
500
a combination of two or more substances that aren’t chemically bonded