Physical Characteristics
Special Characteristics
Types of Minerals
Atoms
Other
100
The color of a minerals powder
What is a streak?
100
Minerals that glow under ultraviolet light
What is fluorescence?
100
Silicate and non-silicate
What are the two groups of minerals?
100
Protons and Neutrons
What is in the nucleus?
100
Minerals may form on the Earth's surface
What happens when solutions evaporate?
200
A term used to describe how light is reflected from a mineral's surface
What is luster?
200
The attraction to iron
What is magnetism?
200
A combination of silicon and oxygen
What is Silicate?
200
The smallest particle of an element
What is an atom?
200
cause minerals to form deep in the Earth's crust
What is the crystallization of melted materials?
300
The repeating pattern of a mineral's particles that forms a solid.
What is the crystal structure?
300
Calcite bubbling when weak acid is dropped on it
What is a chemical reaction?
300
Gold, Copper, Silver
What are Native Elements?
300
An attraction between oppositely charged ions
What is an ionic bond?
300
Minerals that form as the magma rises up through the crust
What are plutons?
400
Minerals generally do not split apart evenly. They split into curved or irregular parts.
What is fracture?
400
Halite is salty
What is taste?
400
Quartz, Mica and Feldspar
What are types of silicate minerals?
400
No charge
What is charge of an atom?
400
Pyrite
What is fool's gold?
500
A clean, even split in a mineral
What is cleavage?
500
Mass/volume
What is density?
500
Halides, Oxides, Sulfides
What are types of non-silicate minerals?
500
They have a negative charge
What are electrons?
500
Removing ore from the land
What is mining?
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