What makes a mineral?
How do I identify the mineral?
True or False
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Misc.
100
What does inorganic mean?
What is not alive and never was.
100
How do you test a minerals hardness?
What is with a scratch test.
100
Naturally occurring means that is manmade.
What is false
100
You find _________ by dividing mass and volume.
What is density.
100
What is the hardest mineral?
What is diamond.
200
What does naturally occurring mean?
What is made by the earth, not by people
200
What kind of test do you do to find out the mineral's powder color?
What is a streak test.
200
A mineral is always a solid because it has a definite volume and a definite shape.
What is true
200
When doing a scratch test, you first your _________ to test the mineral.
What is fingernail.
200
Name one mineral that can be mined.
What is diamonds, gold, copper, silver, etc.
300
Is a mineral a liquid, solid, or gas?
What is a solid
300
What is it called when a mineral breaks unevenly?
What is fracture.
300
One property of minerals is if they are metallic or not.
What is true.
300
Fluorescence of a mineral falls under the __________ properties category.
What is special properties.
300
Name the softest mineral.
What is talc.
400
What type of structure makes up a mineral?
What is a crystal structure.
400
What term is used to describe how light is reflected off a mineral?
What is luster.
400
Magnetism of a mineral falls under the special properties category.
What is true.
400
________ is the outward color of the mineral.
What is color.
400
If the mineral calcite can be scratched by the mineral quartz, which one is harder?
What is quartz.
500
What does definite chemical composition mean?
What is the mineral is made up of known elements.
500
How do we find a minerals density?
What is mass divided by volume.
500
A mineral with a hardness of 2 will scratch a mineral with a hardness of 6.
What is false
500
One way to identify a mineral is to rub it against a piece of unglazed tile to observe its ____________.
What is streak.
500
Define fracture.
What is when a mineral doesn't break apart evenly.
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