Matter
It is the smallest part of a compound that still has the properties of that compound.
What is a molecule?
Among metallic luster, solid substance, and orderly crystalline structure, it is not a characteristic common to all minerals.
What is metallic luster?
It is the type of bond that forms between ions.
What is an ionic bond?
This happens to electrons when atoms combine.
What is shared or transferred?
It is the subatomic particle that is most involved in chemical bonding.
What is an electron?
Among the carbonate, halide, silicate, and oxide groups, the elements fluorine and chlorine can form minerals that are classified in this group.
What is the halide group?
It is what you can tell about a mineral when you scratch it.
What is hardness?
They are the main 3 types of bonds that combine elements.
What are ionic, covalent, and metal bonds?
Among crystallization, evaporation, precipitation, condensation, this is the way minerals that are formed from magma.
What is crystallization?
Among silicon, oxygen, carbon, and aluminum, this element is not one of the 6 most common elements in the Earth's crust.
What is carbon?
Among an ion, neutron, proton, or electron, which is not a subatomic particle of an atom?
What is an ion?
It is the class of minerals that gold, silver, and copper belong to?
What are native elements?
It is what uneven breakage of a mineral is called.
What is fracture?
It is what is formed when 2 or more elements are joined together in specific proportions.
What is a compound?
It is something that is a naturally occurring, inorganic solid with an orderly crystalline structure and a definite chemical composition.
What is a mineral?
Among silicone, oxygen, carbon, and iron, it is the most common element by weight in the Earth's crust.
What is oxygen?
An atom having 6 protons and an atomic number of 14 has this many neutrons.
What is 8?
It is one way to determine the identity of a mineral by the color of its powdered form.
What is streak?
When minerals break along smooth, flat surfaces that is called this.
What is cleavage?
When an atom's outer energy level doesn’t have the maximum number of electrons, this is more likely to be formed.
What is a chemical bond?
It is one thing a mineral cannot be.
What is formed from once-living material?
It is the smallest particle of an element that still retains the essential physical properties of that element.
What is an atom?
It is what is formed if an atom gains or loses an electron.
What is an ion?
It is the appearance or quality of light that is reflected from the surface of a mineral.
What is luster?
Among external shape, density, internal atomic structure, and hardness, this determines whether a mineral will show cleavage or break in irregular fractures.
What is internal atomic structure?
It is the chemical bond that occurs between positive and negative ions.
What is an ionic bond?
Among a sulfate, an oxide, a silicate, and a carbonate, the mineral barite (BaSO4) is classified as this.
What is a sulfate?
Among air, carbon dioxide, hydrogen, and water, it is an element.
What is hydrogen?
The are atoms that have the same number of protons but different numbers of neutrons.
What are isotopes?
It is a measurement of a mineral's hardness.
What is the Mohs scale?
Among the ratio a mineral’s mass to its volume is called this.
What is density?
Among ionization, precipitation, condensation, and sublimation, it is the process that causes dissolved substances to be left behind to form minerals after water in lakes or ponds evaporates.
What is precipitation?
It is what you get when you add the number of protons and neutrons of an atom.
What is the mass number.
It is what the changes of color of fluorite are due to.
What are small amounts of different elements?
It is what determines the properties of a mineral.
What are the elements that compose it and the arrangement of its atoms?
It is how you would classify a mineral that contains carbon, oxygen, and the metallic element magnesium.
What is a carbonate?
It is the same as the number of protons of an atom.
What is the atomic number?
These are 4 common mineral groups.
What are silicates, oxides, carbonates, and sulfides?
This happens when carbonate minerals come into contact with hydrochloric acid.
What is fizz?