Characteristics of Minerals
Identifying Properties of Minerals 1
Identifying Properties of Minerals 2
Rocks 1
Rocks 2
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About how many types of minerals are there on Earth?
About 3,000
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What scale do we use to measure the hardness of a mineral?
Mohs Hardness Scale
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What is the least reliable identifying mineral property?
Mineral color
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What are the three types of rocks?
Sedimentary, Metamorphic, and Igneous
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In what type of rock are fossils found?
Sedimentary
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Are minerals solid, liquid, or gas?
Solid
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What property looks at how a mineral breaks?
Cleavage or Fracture
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What are the two types of luster?
Metallic and Non-metallic
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Marble and slate are examples of what type of rock?
Metamorphic
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Marble and slate are examples of what type of rock?
Metamorphic
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Are minerals made up of organic or inorganic substances?
Inorganic
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If a mineral's dry weight is 60 grams and its wet weight is 50 grams, what is its specific gravity?
6
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How many different crystal shapes are there?
6
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This type of rock is formed from the cooling and hardening of hot, molten rock
Igneous
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Granite, pumice, and obsidian are examples of what type of rock?
Igneous Rock
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All minerals are found naturally as a part of Earth. True or False?
True
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On the scale used to measure the hardness of a mineral, what is the softest mineral and hardest mineral?
Talc and Diamond
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Name two of the three ways minerals are formed
Magma Process, Pressure Process, and/or Hydrothermal Solution (Hot Water Solution)
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Rocks that form from magma and cool beneath the Earth's surface are called what?
Intrusive Igneous
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Coal, conglomerate, and limestone are what type of rock?
Sedimentary
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Whether you have 1 gram of quartz or 300 grams, it is always made up of SiO2. What characteristic is this?
Definite chemical composition
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What is an example of a special property used to identify minerals?
Hydrochloric Acid (HCl), Smell, etc.
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What are the two main mineral groups?
Silicates and Non-Silicates
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What process must occur to go from igneous rock to metamorphic rock?
Heat and Pressure
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Rocks formed from lava and cooled on the exterior of the Earth are called?
Extrusive igneous rock
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