Rocks
What is a rock made up of?
Rocks are composed of minerals
What is a mineral?
A naturally occurring, solid substance made of one or more elements, with a definite chemical makeup and an ordered crystal structure.
What is an atom?
What is a solution?
Where one substance dissolves evenly into another so it looks the same throughout.
Is gold (Au) a compound?
No it is an element
What does non-synthetic mean?
A substance made from natural living organisms
What is crystallization ?
When a substance cools and its atoms arrange in a distinct repeating pattern
A molecule is...
Any two or more atoms bonded together
What is a solute?
A substance that gets dissolved in a solution
Yes
What are some qualities you could use to identify a rock?
color, hardness, streak, texture, and whether it has layers or crystals.
What is evaporative mineral formation?
When the solvent of a solution evaporates, and the dissolved solute is left behind and crystallizes
A compound is...
Two or more distinct atoms bonded together
What is a solvent?
The substance that dissolves another substance
Why is H2O a compound and O2 is not?
H2O is made up of two distinct kinds of atoms
What are the three main types of rocks?
Igneous, metamorphic, sedimentary
What is igneous mineral formation?
When lava or magma cools and crystallizes
How are atoms and elements related?
How in the borax lab what was the solute, what was the solvent?
Solute: Borax
Solvent: Hot Water
What are the five characteristics of a mineral?
Naturally occurring
Solid
Inorganic
Definite chemical composition
Crystal structure
Is ice a mineral?
Yes It forms naturally
What is hydrothermal mineral formation?
Hydrothermal mineral formation is when hot, mineral-rich water moves through cracks in rocks, cools down, and leaves behind crystals.
What are the three subatomic particles that make up atoms?
Protons, neutrons, electrons
What kind of mineral formation best describes our crystallization lab?
Evaporative Mineral Formation
Are sugar crystals minerals?
No because they come from living things