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The Mohs scale is a measure of this quality of minerals.
What is hardness?
Minerals are classified based upon what properties?
What are physical properties?
Minerals are found in the ___________
What is the Earth's crust?
A mineral deposit that is profitable is called an ________.
What is ore?
Minerals are inorganic, which means they are _____________.
What is something that was never living?
The Mohs scale ranges from what to what.
What is 1-10?
When a mineral is in powder form this property can be observed.
What is streak?
A mineral displays this characteristic if it breaks with rough jagged edges.
What is fracture?
Minerals can be formed in many ways, which one of these is a way a mineral is formed?
a) mining ore
b) condensation
c) breaking rocks apart
d) evaporation of water solutions
What is D) evaporation of water solutions?
Minerals are made of atoms that are arranged in this type of structure.
What is orderly and repeating?
According to Mohs scale, this mineral is quite soft. In fact, it is the softest of all.
What is Talc?
Metallic, vitreous, glassy, pearly, earthy, and dull are all terms to describe this property of minerals.
What is luster?
Cleavage means that a mineral ____________.
What is breaks along a flat surface?
Many gem stones are formed by magma moving up and forming a tear drop shaped body is called a __________.
What is a pegmatite?
Arranged in an orderly repeating pattern is called a what structure?
What is a crystal structure?
According to Mohs scale, this mineral is the hardest.
What is a diamond?
Which one of these is NOT a way to identify a mineral:
Luster, hardness, mass, streak test
What is mass?
Hardness is how easily this can be done to another mineral.
What is scratched?
Drift mines, slope mines, and shaft mines are the three types of this type of mining.
What is subsurface mining?
Minerals are grouped into two main classifications nonsilicate minerals and silicate minerals which are made up of one or more metals mixing with these two elements.
What are silicon and oxygen?
A mineral with a hardness of 5 can scratch which other minerals?
What are any minerals with a hardness of 4 or less
Hardness and Specific Gravity are 2 of the 7 physical properties we can classify minerals with, what are the other 5?
What are color, streak, luster, cleavage, and fracture?
Comparing a minerals density to the density of water is how we determine this.
What is Specific Gravity?
What is reclamation?
Coal was formed approximately 300 million years ago from the remains of trees and other vegetation. Coal has a color, a hardness, a streak... but it isn't a mineral because _________.
What is it is not inorganic?