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What is a naturally occurring, inorganic solid that has a crystal structure and a definite chemical composition?
What is a mineral
What can help to identify a mineral by it’s color by checking the color of it’s powder.
What is a streak test.
Is ice more or less dense than water
What is less.
What the vocabulary word for a mineral that splits easily along flat surfaces?
What is fracture.
What is the name of the scientist that discovered a way to test a mineral’s hardness?
Who is Friedrich Mohs
A mineral must also be _________ meaning that the mineral cannot form from materials that were once part of a living thing.
What is inorganic.
Crystals must have a repeating
Density is a measure of how much _____ is in a given volume.
What is mass.
A mineral must have a ________ meaning that it must always contain certain elements in definite proportions.
What is definite chemical composition.
Give me an example of a special property a mineral can have.
What is fluorescence or magnetism.
What is the vocabulary word for having a definite volume and shape?
What is solid.
To become a mineral a substance must be ___________, meaning that it has to form on it’s own.
What is Naturally occuring.
An object that is ____ dense will sink below an object that is more dense.
What is less.
The Mohs hardness scale ranks ten minerals from?
What is softest to hardest.
What is the mathematical equation used to identify a mineral’s density?
What is density equals mass over volume.
What is a repeating pattern of a mineral’s particles that form a solid called?
What is crystal.
This describes how a mineral looks when it breaks apart in an irregular way.
What is cleavage.
What is mass by volume.
This is how light is reflected from a mineral’s surface.
What is luster.
Can amber be classified as a mineral?
What is no. It is formed from a formerly living organism.
Why is coal not considered a mineral?
what is it is made from formerly living materials
What is the difference between cleavage and fracture?
What is cleavage is how a mineral breaks apart in a regular way and fracture is when it breaks apart in an irregular way.
Does the density of an object change depending on it’s volume?
What is No.
What year did Friedrich Mohs invent the Mohs hardness scale?
What was 1812.
What are the 6 properties of minerals?
What are hardness, color, luster, streak, cleavage and fracture.