Characteristics of Minerals
Groups of Minerals
Properties of Minerals
Formation of Minerals
Hodge Podge
100
Minerals have a rigid shape and definite volume. This one word describes this characteristic.
What is solid?
100
Scientists classify minerals into groups according to this
What is chemical make-up?
100
Color of the powder left behind when a mineral is scraped across a surface
What is streak?
100
When this evaporates, minerals are left behind
What is water?
100
Talc and diamonds are found at each end of this scale of hardness
What is the Moh's scale?
200
Where all minerals are formed
What is nature?
200
Most common group of minrals
What are silicates?
200
Two types of luster
What is metallic and nonmetallic?
200
Gold forms beneath the surface of Earth when this cools
What is gold?
200
Rocks that contain enough of a mineral to be mined for profit
What is ore?
300
All minerals consist of a specific combination of atoms of these substances
What are elements?
300
30 of the most common rock-forming minerals are found here
What is Earth's crust?
300
Calcite has this property because it has a tendency to break along flat surfaces
What is calcite?
300
These two types of molten rock form minerals when they cool
What are magma and lava?
300
3 types of surface mining
What are panning, strip mining, and open-pit mining?
400
This internal structure is characteristic of all minerals
What is crystal?
400
Second most common group of minerals
What are carbonates?
400
Quartz has this property because it breaks into irregular pieces
What is fracture?
400
These 2 factors within Earth cause bonds between atoms to break and join to form new minerals
What are heat and pressure?
400
4 special properties of minerals
What is radioactivity, magnetism, fluorescence, and reaction with acid?
500
A mineral is defined by these 4 characteristics
What are definite chemical make-up, formed in nature, is a solid, and has a crystal structure?
500
Minerals from which most metals such as tin and copper are refined
What are oxides?
500
Amount of mineral's mass in a given volume
What is density?
500
Sea organisms may be a source of this group of minerals
What are carbonate minerals?
500
Another name for a mineral's density
What is specific gravity?
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