Where Do We Find Minerals?
What is a Mineral?
How Do I Identify a Mineral?
Discovering Minerals in the Bible
Building a Mineral Collection + A World of Valuable Minerals
100
An element you pick up that looks like a rock, but is actually composed mostly of a metal.
What is a native mineral?
100
Containing no plant or animal material.
What is inorganic?
100
The part of geology that deals with the science of minerals.
What is mineralogy?
100
One who studies the rocks and minerals of Earth, including how they formed.
What is a geologist?
100
To sort or categorize items so they can be placed in a logical sequence or order.
What is to classify?
200
Those minerals that are more uncommon, generally more valuable, and often harder to to gather because of the process involved.
What are rare minerals?
200
Objects that contain tow or more parts.
What are compounds?
200
Related to the amount of shine or reflective quality of a particular object.
What is luster?
200
To distort or twist something good into something wicked.
What is to corrupt?
200
A sampling of various minerals representing types of mineral categories.
What are mineral specimens?
300
The reaction that occurs when two or more chemicals are combined.
What are chemical interactions?
300
Something that contains copper in the monovalent state.
What is cuprous?
300
The balance of opposite sides of an object in regard to size and form.
What is symmetry?
300
A comparison of two ideas or things with similar features that helps you understand more complex things.
What is an analogy?
300
To change or form into solid crystals through a chemical process.
What is to crystallize?
400
Much like regular mining for minerals like zinc and copper, this involves drilling into the earth where salt deposits are found, crushing the salt, and brining it back tot the surface.
What is deep-shaft mining?
400
Determines that number of atoms that will unite in a chemical reaction.
What is valence?
400
"Reflecting like a diamond facet."
What is adamantine?
400
A reconciling or repairing of relationship, as done by Christian His scarce so we could stand forgiven before God.
What is atonement?
400
Large portions of land, or "plates," that form what we call the continents, and that move independently from each other.
What are continental masses?
500
Most table salt is made from gathering salt from salt beds and injecting water into the mix to remove the salt. This brine is then evaporated into salt pans at a processing plant (a type of mining).
What is solution mining?
500
Found a way to use copper and other metals to construct a printing press.
Who is Johannes Guttenberg?
500
Determines the hardness of minerals.
What is the Mohs' scale?
500
A mixture or solution that combines a metal and other metals and elements.
What is an alloy?
500
Banded iron formation; in a rock this contains several kinds of iron ore.
What is BIF?