What makes a mineral?
Properties of Minerals
How Minerals Form
How Minerals Are Used
Miscellaneous
100
Minerals are this state of matter.
What is solid?
100
This property can be observed by running a mineral across an unglazed tile.
What is streak?
100
This is the process by which atoms are arranged to form a material with a crystal structure.
What is crystallization?
100
This is a hard, colorful mineral that has a brilliant or glassy luster.
What is a gemstone?
100
This type of mining involves digging a complex series of tunnels.
What is shaft mining?
200
Minerals are not not made from materials that were once part of a living thing. In other words they are...
What is inorganic?
200
This term describes how light is reflected from a mineral's surface.
What is luster?
200
This is a mixture in which one substance is dissolved in another.
What is a solution?
200
This is a rock that contains a metal or other useful mineral that can be mined and sold at a profit.
What is an ore?
200
This describes how a mineral looks when it breaks apart in an irregular way.
What is fracture?
300
Minerals have this because their particles line up in a pattern that repeats over and over again.
What is a crystal structure?
300
This scale is ranks 10 minerals from softest to hardest.
What is the Mohs hardness scale?
300
This is a rounded hollow rock that is often lined with mineral crystals.
What is a geode?
300
This is the name of the process of search for minerals.
What is prospecting?
300
Describe the luster of this mineral.
What is metallic?
400
Because minerals have a definite chemical composition they can only be these two types of matter.
What are elements or compounds?
400
If a mineral breaks apart into thin, flat sheets it displays this characteristic.
What is cleavage?
400
When minerals form from hot water solutions, this forms.
What is a vein?
400
This is a solid mixture of two or more elements, at least one of which is a metal.
What is an alloy?
400
This is the name for the method used to determine the volume of an irregular object, such as a mineral.
What is the displacement method?
500
Steel is not a mineral, unlike iron, because it is not...
What is naturally occurring?
500
A mineral that has a volume of 15 cubic centimeters and mass of 60 grams has this density.
What is 4 g/cubic centimeters?
500
This is the main factor that affects the size of crystals formed in magma/lava.
What is rate of cooling?
500
This is the process in which an ore is mixed with other substances and then melted to separate the useful metal from other elements the ore contains.
What is smelting?
500
Cubic and hexagonal are terms that can be used to describe this property.
What is crystal system?