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Mineral Properties
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Minerals
Mineral Properties 2
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streak
What is the color a mineral leaves behind when you scratch it on a ceramic tile?
100

Name the parent rock of Quatzite

Quartz sandstone

100
weathering
What is the breaking down of rock by wind, water, ice, or plants?
100
a mineral
What is a non-living, solid, material that makes up rock?
100
the scale used to measure the hardness of a mineral
What is the Moh's Scale?
200
density
What is the weight of a mineral compared to its size
200

A sedimentary rock that is most likely to be changed to slate during regional metamorphism.

What is shale

200

Which type of climate has the greatest amount of rock weathering caused by frost action?

What is cold and wet climate

200
a mineral that cleaves in layers and is used in make up
What is mica?
200
luster
What is the shine of a mineral?
300
fracture
What is the breakage of a mineral in a jagged, uneven way?
300

Rock that cools and hardens on the surface of the earth

What is extrusive igneous rock?

300
the movement of weathered rock and soil from one place to another by water, wind, ice, or gravity
What is erosion?
300
a mineral with high density, silvery metallic shine
What is galena?
300
the breakage of a mineral along flat, smooth lines or surfaces
What is cleavage?
400
Diamond
What is the hardest mineral on the Moh's Scale?
400
rock that has been changed from one kind of rock into another
What is metamorphic rock?
400

What are the factors that determine stream velocity?

The factors that determine stream velocity are Gradient, water discharge, and channel shape

400
a mineral known for fizzing when vinegar is applied
What is calcite?
400
luster of a mineral described as shining like the polished surface of metal
What is metallic luster?
500

2 minerals that are softer than a human fingernail

graphite and talc

500

Foliated rock, shows mineral alignment but not banding, and contains medium-sized grains of quartz and pyroxene?

What is schist

500
the dropping of sediment by erosion
What is deposition?
500

Chemical formula of pyrite

FeS2

500
a quality of something that helps you distinguish it from another
What is a property?