Characteristics
Properties
Miscellaneous Facts
Mineral Testing
Review of Past Concepts
100
Meaning that something occurs in nature, or is found in nature.
What is "Naturally Occuring?"
100
This means to "break off" usually in sheet like pieces.
What is to Cleave, or Cleavage?
100
This is the softest mineral on Mohs Hardness Scale
What is talc?
100
This term means that the mineral reflects light, and is used to identify minerals.
What is Luster?
100
The process a rock goes through that is almost like recycling it from one state, and/or type, to another type.
What is the rock cycle?
200
This means that it generally does not involve living things
Generally Inorganic
200
This is tested by observing the scratches that the mineral can create.
What is the mineral's hardness?
200
This is the hardest mineral on Mohs Hardness Scale.
What is a diamond?
200
This is called Streak, when testing minerals.
The line of minerals left behind during a mineral test.
200
This is how rocks move from deep in the earth to the surface above the crust.
what is uplift?
300
These are made of rock, the largest rocks on Earth.
Plate Tectonics
300
This is a property of a mineral that you can see, and can sometimes help you to identify.
What is the mineral's color?
300
True or false: You can sometimes identify a mineral if you can examine what it looks like, closely, and if you know what to look for.
true
300
True or False: All Minerals contain rock
false
300
Name two things that the Plate tectonics can affect?
answers will vary
400
These are present in all rocks, regardless of type
Minerals
400
This is the color left behind by a mineral's powder.
What is streak?
400
The number of common minerals identified.
What is 30
400
True or False: All rock contains minerals
true
400
This is the amount of matter in an object, relative to it's size
What is density?
500
The structure where atoms in a mineral are arranged in orderly, repeating patterns.
What is Crystal Structure?
500
The Oyster.
What is one exception to the rule that minerals are generally inorganic?
500
This is the number of total minerals that have been identified.
3,000
500
Name an object we use in our every day lives, that can be made from a mineral, or mineral ore?
varies steel granite pumice slate flagstone
500
This means that minerals are all made of specific elements.
What is Definite Composition?
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