Physical Properties
This is what scientists who study the distribution of minerals and mineral properties?
What are Mineralogists? (pg. 87)
Something that is naturally occurring, inorganic solid with a definite chemical composition and an orderly arrangement of atoms or ions?
What is a mineral. (pg. 77)
This is the process when particles dissolve in a liquid or a melt solidify and form crystals?
What is crystallization? (pg. 81)
This is the kg of mineral resources used by a average person each year.
What is 22,000 kg. (pg. 95)
This is a member of the mineral group that has silicon and oxygen in its crystal structure?
What is silicate (pg. 81)
This is the differences between cleavage and fracture?
What is breaking minerals on uneven surfaces or breaking mineral with a smooth surface. (pg. 90)
These things are created by minerals?
What is belt buckle, jewelry, or zippers. (pg. 77)
This is used to disperse or disappear in solution.
What dissolves. (pg. 82)
This is what an ore is?
What is a rock that contains high enough concentration of a desired substance, such as a metal, so that it can be mined a profit. (pg. 95)
Theses are the Nonsilicates?
What is Calcite and Halite (pg. 81)
This is the hardest mineral?
What is a diamond. (pg. 89)
This is a group of atoms or a group of atoms with an electric charge?
What is ion. (pg. 78)
This is when molten rock is stored beneath Earth's surface face?
What is magma. (pg. 83)
These are all the gemstones?
What is an emerald, sapphire, ruby, diamond, peridot, and amethyst. (pg. 98)
Theses well-formed crystals are long and typically have distinctly pointed ends?
What is quartz (pg. 79)
This is the process of an object's mass divided by its volume.
What is density (pg. 91)
This is the salt you shake on your food and its a mineral?
What is Halite. (pg. 78)
This can uplift minerals from great depths onto Earth's surface?
What is Tectonic activity. (pg. 83)
This is the important of Iron?
What is the main ingredient in the steel used to construct buildings and bridges and to manufacture automobiles and trains.
(True or False) Do minerals always exist in large, well-developed geometric shapes?
(False) (pg. 80)
Theses are all the ways to identify minerals?
What is color, hardness, streak, luster, cleavage, fracture and density. (pg. 87, 88, 89, 90, 91)
This is how many minerals are on Earth?
What is 4000 (pg. 78)
This mineral forms under high temperatures and high pressure.
What is Olivine (pg. 83)
About how much aluminum is mined each year?
What is 2.7 * 10^10 (pg. 96)
Theses are the silicate minerals?
What is Quartz, Potassium feldspar, Plagioclase feldspar, Olivine, Pyroxene, Amphibole, and Mica. (pg. 81)