Mineral Tests
Finding Density
Chemistry
Mining
Identifying Minerals
100
Moh's scale
What is scale used in the mineral hardness test?
100
balance
What is tool used to measure mass?
100
atom
What is smallest piece of matter?
100
Ore
What is a mineral deposit large and pure enough to be mined for profit?
100
mineral phase or state
What is solid?
200
Streak
What is test that leaves a colored streak on an unglazed porcelain plate?
200
LxWxH
What is formula used to find volume of a block?
200
element
What is a substance made up of just one kind of atom?
200
surface mines
What are "open pit" and quarries?
200
never living
What is inorganic?
300
Fizzes
What is the reaction of some minerals to acid?
300
water displacement
What is method used to measure the volume of an irregularly shaped object?
300
compound
What is a substance made up of 2 or more kinds of atoms?
300
subsurface mines
What is a mine that is deep in the ground?
300
not man made
What is natural?
400
Luster
What is word that describes the way a mineral reflects light?
400
M/V
What is formula for finding density?
400
Organic
What is a material that was once living?
400
gemstone
What is a nonmetallic mineral that is valued for its beauty and rarity?
400
specific structure and arrangement of atoms
What is crystal or crystalline?
500
Magnetic
What is reaction of some minerals to a metal like iron?
500
grams/ml
What is label for density?
500
Inorganic
What is a material that was never living?
500
metamorphism
What takes place when changes in temperature , pressure and chemical make up alter rock?
500
a certain number and kinds of atoms
What is a formula?
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