Mineral Properties
Kinds of Rock
Landforms
Minerals
Mineral Properties 2
100
The color a mineral leaves behind when you scratch it on a ceramic tile.
What is streak?
100
The kind of rock that forms from cooled, hardened lava
What is igneous rock?
100
Features sculpted by erosion or uplift on Earth's surface.
What are landforms?
100
This characteristic tells us that a mineral is created by processes that do not involve living things.
What is generally inorganic?
100
the scale used to measure the hardness of a mineral
What is the Moh's Scale?
200
Density is this.
What is the weight of a mineral compared to its size
200
The original rock before it has changed into a new rock
What is a parent rock?
200
the broken down particles of rock
What is sediment?
200
This is the softest mineral.
What is talc?
200
This physical property sometimes helps to identify a mineral.
What is color?
300
The breakage of a mineral in a jagged, uneven way.
What is fracture?
300
This shows us the process of a one rock becoming another type of rock.
What is the rock cycle?
300
the movement of weathered rock and soil from one place to another by water, wind, ice, or gravity
What is erosion?
300
A mineral's definite composition refers to a set number of the amount of these.
What is an element?
300
the breakage of a mineral along flat, smooth lines or surfaces
What is cleavage?
400
the hardest mineral on the Moh's Scale.
What is a diamond ?
400
rock that has been changed from a parent rock into a new kind of rock
What is metamorphic rock?
400
The process that moves the surface of the Earth to a higher elevation.
What is uplift?
400
a mineral known for fizzing when vinegar is applied or creating double refraction.
What is calcite?
400
6 Other properties a mineral can have.
What is magnetism/ double refraction/ reaction to acid/ conduct electricity/ mark paper?
500
the property of a mineral that describes how a mineral may reflects light.
What is luster?
500
rock formed from pieces of rocks, shells, or the remains of plants or animals.
What is sedimentary rock?
500
The 4 forces of erosion.
What are wind, water, gravity, and ice? (order does not matter)
500
The 5 things that classify something as a mineral.
What is naturally occurring, generally inorganic solid with a crystal structure and definite composition?
500
For a mineral to be classified as an ore it must be these two things.
What are useful and profitable?
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