Mineral Properties
Mineral Characteristics
True or False
Ionic vs Covalent
Groups
100
What property is the least reliable for mineral identification?
What is Color.
100
What does it mean if a mineral is "inorganic"?
It means "non-living" or "dead."
100
A group of minerals that is most commonly occurring are the silicates.
What is TRUE.
100
Made of two nonmetals sharing electrons
What is Covalent Bond
100
Minerals that contain the ion O2-
What are oxides?
200
Name this test.
What is Streak Test
200
If ice is a mineral but water is not. Why is water not a mineral?
Liquid. Needs to be a solid (one of the 5 characteristics of a mineral).
200
An atom is made up of at least more than one molecule
What is FALSE.
Molecules are made up of more than one atom.
200
One way to tell an ionic bond using the Periodic Table.
What is far apart like NaCl?
200
This group of minerals contained two different forms of quartz in your lab.
What are silicates?
300
This property is useful showing multiple angles and directions of breakage.
What is cleavage?
300
This characteristic describes a mineral on a microscopic level.
What is symmetrical pattern or arrangement of atoms?
OR
What is a definite formula?
300
Quartz can scratch Diamond.
What is FALSE.
Diamond is the toughest mineral. Only diamond can scratch diamond.
300
Will dissolve in water and has high MP.
What is Ionic
300
Fluorite is an example of this group of minerals.
What is halides?
400
These minerals produces CO2 when reacting with an acid.
What is calcite or dolomite?
400
The reason coal is not a mineral.
What is coal is organic. It is made from the remains of vegetation.
400
A mineral is made of rocks.
What is FALSE.
Minerals are made naturally on Earth. Rocks are made up of minerals.
400
Characteristics of covalent bonds.
What is low MP, insoluble, typically S, L, or Gases.
400
This group contains the mineral Calcite which reacts with an acid.
What is/are carbonates?
500
Using Moh's Scale of Hardness:
This value range is recorded when a penny can be scratched, but not glass.
What is 3-4.5
500
This is the difference between graphite (pencil lead) and diamond both containing only Carbon.
What is their atomic arrangement or different crystal structures.
500
Cleavage shows random breakage of minerals in different planes and angles.
What is FALSE.
This is fracture.
500
These are the types of ions that make up ionic bonds.
What is cation (+) and anion (-)?
500
Fools gold, Pyrite, belongs to this group.
What is/are Sulfides?