Elements that make up earth
The most abundant element in the crust by mass.
What is Oxygen?
The color of the powdered form of a mineral.
What is a streak?
What reacts to acid?
anything with calcium carbonate. ex:calcite
What is the mineral that can scratch every mineral and itself, but every mineral cannot scratch it?
Gold.
State the relationship between cooling rate and crystal size for minerals.
The slower the cooling time the larger the mineral crystal is.
The most abundant element in the crust by volume.
What is Oxygen?
Why is Pyrite metallic?
Pyrite's surface reflects back all the light that hits the surface.
What is used as rock salt?
Halite
What mineral has a metallic luster and has a greasy feel to it?
Graphite.
List Three reasons why color alone cannot be used to identify minerals.
- one mineral can come in many colors
- some minerals can have the same color
- impurities can change the true color of a mineral
The most abundant element in the hydrosphere.
What is Hydrogen?
What does a diagram with a scratch on the glass show?
The hardness test.
How can the mineral magnetite be easily identified?
Magnetite attracts magnets.
What mineral do people use for making cement and has a hardness of 3?
calcite.
What are rocks made out of?
Minerals, however rocks that are composed of organic material are not made from minerals
The third least abundant element in crust by volume.
What is Aluminum?
What are minerals composed of?
Minerals are composed of crystals.
What mineral has most of the special properties?
What is a mineral that is a fracture, does not have metallic luster, and is colorless or variable?
Quartz
The 20 minerals that make up most of earths crust are called?
rock-forming minerals
The 2nd least abundant elements in the crust by mass?
What is Potassium?
What factor determines the physical characteristics of a mineral?
Internal arrangement of atoms or chemical composition.
Pop Question!! : What is the difference between cleavage and fracture?
Cleavage has flat/even surfaces when fracture has uneven/rough surfaces.
What mineral has a hardness of 10?
Gold.
What is the proper name for the mineral called "Fools Gold"? What are three ways how you can tell it apart from real god?
Pyrite; Streak test, density test, hardness test.