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Matter
Atoms
Chemical Bonding
Minerals
Properties of Minerals
100
Positively charged subatomic particle.
What is a proton?
100
Substance that cannot be broken down into simplier substances by chemical or physical means.
What is an element?
100
The force that hold atoms together in a compound.
What is a chemical bond?
100
A naturally occuring, inorganic solid with an orderly crystaline structure and definite chemical composition.
What is a mineral?
100
One of the ways to identify minerals.
What is color, streak, luster, crystal form, or hardness?
200
A negatively charged subatomic particle.
What is an electron?
200
The smallest particle of matter rthat contains teh characteristics of an element.
What is an atom?
200
An atom that has an electrical charge because of a gain or loss of an electron.
What is an ion?
200
One of the four major processes by which minerals form.
What is crystallization, precipitation, changes in pressure and temperature, or formation of hydrothermal solutions?
200
This is the scale used to measure the hardness of a meneral.
What is the Mohs scale?
300
A subatomic particle that has no charge.
What is a neutron?
300
The location of protons and neutrons in the atom.
What is the nucleus?
300
This forms between positive and negative ions.
What is an ionic bond?
300
Common minerals can be classified based on this.
What is composition?
300
In the Mohs scale this number represents the hardest mineral.
What is 10?
400
The atomic number represents the number of these.
What are protons? OR What are electrons?
400
Atoms with the same number of protons but different numbers of neutrons.
What are isotopes?
400
This type of bond occurs when electrons are shared between atoms.
What is a covalent bond?
400
Formed from the combination of silicon and oxygen.
What is a silicon-oxygen terahedron?
400
An uneven breakage of a mineral.
What is a fracture?
500
The mass number is the sum of these two particles.
What are protons and neutrons?
500
Substance that consists of two or more elements that are chemically combined in specific proportions.
What is a compound?
500
Formed when electrons are shared by metal ions.
What is a metallic bond?
500
Minerals that only contain one element or type of atom.
What are native elements?
500
The tendency of a mineral to break along flat, even surfaces.
What is cleavage?