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Essential Questions
100
The mineral characteristic that identifies a mineral is made by God.
What is naturally occurring?
100
A property determined by scraping one mineral against another mineral.
What is hardness?
100
The formation of minerals when hot magma or lava cools.
What is crystallization of melted materials?
100
A hard, colorful mineral that has a brilliant or glassy luster.
What is a gemstone?
100
The definition of a mineral.
What is naturally occurring, inorganic solid with a definite chemical composition and crystal structure?
200
The mineral characteristic that indicates a mineral has no living element a part of it.
What is inorganic?
200
The property that is easiest to use but not the most reliable for mineral classification.
What is color?
200
When a mineral is formed due to evaporation that occurs after elements are dissolved in hot water.
What is crystallization of materials dissolved in water?
200
Can be stretched into wire, flattened sheets, hammered or molded without breaking.
Why are minerals used as sources of metals useful?
200
The eight properties of minerals.
What is color, streak, luster, density, hardness, crystal structure, fracture/cleavage, and other special properties?
300
The mineral characteristic that a mineral has definite shape.
What is solid?
300
Always the same in similar mineral types, despite different colors and discovered when rubbing the mineral over a glazed tile.
What is streak?
300
Molten material from the mantle that hardens on the surface.
What is magma?
300
A rock that contains a metal or economically useful mineral.
What is an ore?
300
The two processes by which minerals are formed.
What is crystallization of materials in molten, melted material or crystallization of materials from hot water?
400
The characteristic that a mineral is made of specific elements.
What is definite mineral composition?
400
What is the reflection of light on a mineral?
What is luster?
400
Magma that reaches the surface.
What is lava?
400
Three types of mineral mines>
What is strip mines, open pit mines and shaft mines?
400
How minerals are used.
What is a source of metals, gemstones and other materials used to make many products?
500
The repeated pattern of mineral atoms.
What is crystal structure?
500
What is a clean break when a mineral is broken apart?
What is cleavage?
500
A narrow channel or slab of mineral that is much different from surrounding rock.
What is a vein?
500
After miners remove ore from a mine, this is necessary to remove the metal from the ore.
What is smelting?
500
where minerals are found
What is "not evenly distributed throughout the Earth's crust"?
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