SNIFC
Properties of Minerals
Earthquakes & Volcanoes
Scientific Method
...and all the rest!
100
This characteristic is neither liquid or gas.
What is solid?
100
The color of the mineral in powdered form
What is streak?
100
Used to measure the waves of an earthquake.
What is a seismograph?
100
Step-by-step process of problem solving
What is the scientific method?
100
Fossil evidence and the shape of the continents are evidence for this theory.
What is continental drift?
200
One of the characteristics of minerals that means that the substance has never been alive.
What is inorganic?
200
The measure of the mineral’s resistance to scratching.
What is hardness?
200
Earthquakes & volcanoes are most common at these locations.
What are plate boundaries?
200
An educated guess or possible explanation that answers a question and can be tested
What is a hypothesis?
200
Rust is an example of this type of weathering.
What is chemical weathering?
300
Ex. NaCl
What is formula (fixed composition)?
300
The mineral's ability to reflect light.
What is luster?
300
The type of volcano made up mainly of many layers of rock created by lava flow.
What is a shield volcano?
300
The steps involved in testing a hypothesis
What is an experiment?
300
These are used to find locations on a map.
What are longitude and latitude?
400
This means that the substance is found in nature, and not man-made.
What is naturally occurring?
400
The main, but least informative, property of a mineral.
What is color?
400
The point below the surface of the earth where an earthquake begins
What is the focus?
400
Information gathered with your senses
What are observations?
400
This blocks about 95% of the sun’s ultraviolet rays from reaching Earth
What is the ozone layer?
500
This describes the fact that minerals have a specific orderly shape.
What is crystal structure?
500
How cleanly and easily the mineral breaks
What is cleavage?
500
Slower seismic waves that move up and down and from side to side
What are secondary waves?
500
A single question that the researcher is attempting to answer
What is the problem?
500
This scale rates what people feel or observe when an earthquake occurs.
What is the Mercalli scale?
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