How minerals form
classifying minerals
vocabulary
properties of minerals
Mash up
100
A rounded, hollow rock that is often lined with mineral crystals
What is a geode
100
Freidrich Mohs invented this to help classify minerals
What is Moh's hardness scale?
100
Define the streak of a mineral
What is the color of a mineral's powder?
100
Since minerals are formed by processes that occur in the natural world, they are called this.
What is naturally occurring?
100
The size of a mineral’s crystals depends on
What is the rate of cooling?
200
The process by which atoms are arranged to form a material with a crystal structure.
What is crystallization?
200
The term that describes how a mineral reflects light from its surface
What is luster?
200
How a mineral breaks apart when it does not split evenly
What is fracture?
200
Because minerals do not come from living things they are said to be this
What is inorganic?
200
Earthy, shiny, waxy, metallic and pearly are examples of what
What is luster?
300
A mixture in which one substance is dissolved in another.
What is a solution?
300
A substance composed of more than one element.
What is a compound?
300
A vein in a rock.
What is minerals that form a narrow channel or slab in the rock?
300
A substance that keeps its shape because its particles cannot flow freely.
What is a solid?
300
How minerals form from a lake
What is crystals form when the water is evaporated or dries up?
400
A narrow channel or slab of a mineral that is different from the surrounding rock
What is a vein?
400
This is the hardest mineral that can scratch a window pane of glass
What is a diamond?
400
Cleavage
What is the mineral's ability to split easily along flat surfaces?
400
A solid with flat sides that meet at sharp edges and corners.
What is a crystal?
400

How minerals form in underground magma (rate and size)

What is slow cooling magma hardens and forms large crystals?

500

When magma or lava cools to a solid state or when elements and compounds are dissolved in water leaving a solution, what are these two ways forming?

What are two ways to form crystals?

500
This is when you find mass per unit of volume
What is density?
500
The five characteristics of a mineral
What is naturally occurring, inorganic, solid, crystal structure and a definite chemical composition ?
500
Two examples of metallic minerals that occur as elements instead of compounds.
What are gold and silver? (copper, nickel, iron)
500

Three most common metallic minerals

What are gold, silver, iron, nickel, copper?

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