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What are minerals?
Identifying Minerals
How Minerals Form
Mineral Types
Mineral Uses/Fun Facts
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True or False: Oxygen occurs in nature, so it would be considered a mineral.
False: Oxygen is not a solid therefore it does not meet all the requirements of a mineral.
100
True or False: Minerals can be identified using both physical and chemical properties
True
100
All minerals from through this process? When particles dissolved in a liquid or a melt, solidify and form crystals.
What is Crystallization
100
What are mineral ores?
Minerals that can be mined from the Earth and sold for profit.
100
What is one use of Iron?
Sample Answers: 1) Nails 2) Faucets
200
What do we mean by “inorganic” when describing a mineral?
It is made from something not alive.
200
Name the 7 (seven) most common ways to identify minerals.
1) Color 2) Hardness 3) Luster 4) Streak 5) Cleavage 6) Fracture 7) Special Properties
200
As water moves over rocks and soils, it picks up minerals as dissolved solids. These dissolved solids can crystallize out of solution and from new minerals. This process is describing?
Minerals from cool solutions.
200
Name one common Metallic Mineral Resource.
1) Iron-main ingredient in steel 2) Aluminum-cans
200
What is one use of Copper?
Sample Answers: 1) Wires 2) Brass Fixture 3) Plumbing
300
Bronze is mixture of copper and tin, is it still considered a mineral?
No, because it is man made.
300
What is the name of the scale used to identify the hardness of a mineral?
Mohs Hardness Scale
300
This process causes crystallization of minerals from magma?
What is Cooling
300
Name one common Rare Metal.
Sample Answer: Gold
300
What is one use of Mica?
Sample Answer: 1) Plastics
400
Cubic, hexagonal, tetragonal are all examples of minerals with what?
Definite crystal structure-the atoms that form the minerals have a definite repeating pattern.
400
What is the difference between cleavage and fracture?
Cleavage-minerals break along a certain plain Fracture-minerals break along a random, jagged edge
400
As molten magma cools, crystals form. This process is called?
Minerals from Magma
400
Minerals that are not ores are considered what…
Nonmetallic Mineral Resources
400
The average person uses how many kg of minerals each year?
What is 22,000 kg
500
In order for a substance to be a mineral, it must have these five requirements…
1) Inorganic 2) Solid 3) Occurs in nature 4) Definite chemical composition 5) Definite crystal structure
500
Name three “special properties” when identifying minerals.
Sample Answers: 1) Density 2) Smell 3) Taste 4) Magnetism 5) Double Refraction 6) Glow in the Dark
500
Minerals that form and break down at or below Earth’s surface. This process is describing?
Changes in Minerals
500
Where can we find nonmetallic minerals being used in everyday life?
1) Road Construction 2) Ceramic Products 3) Building Stone 4) Fertilizers
500
The two main families of rock-forming minerals are silicates and non-silicates. What is a silicate?
A member of the mineral group that has silicon and oxygen in its crystal structure.