Minerals

Maps

100

 the lines on a topographic map show

What are equal elevations? 

200

steep areas on a map are shown by this

What are lines close together? 

300

divides the earth into Northern and Southern Hemispheres

What is the equator? 

400

divides the earth into Eastern and Western Hemispheres

What is the Prime Meridian? 

500

These lines can have values greater than 90 degrees

What are lines of longitude? 

Testing Minerals

100

This is the softest mineral and has a value of 1 on the Mohs Hardness Scale

What is talc?

200

Name a special property of minerals.  

What is magnetism, taste, texture, radioactivity? 

300

the minimum number of properties needed to ID an element

What is two?

400

This mineral is the hardest known natural substance on Earth

What is diamond?

500

Some minerals have this special property, where they emit visible light when exposed to ultraviolent light.

What is flourescence?

Areas of Earth Science

100

area of earth science that deals with the physical and chemical parts of the oceans

What is oceanography?

200

the area of earth sciences that examines planets and stars outside our atmosphere

What is astronomy?

300

this area of earth science examines the atmosphere

What is meteorology?

400

this area of earth science would examine the effects of waste from a mine on an area

What is environmental science? 

500

Name three of the branches of geology.  

What is mineralogy, seismology, paleontology, volcanology? 

Mineral Identification

100

This is typically the most obvious property of minerals but tends to be the least useful when attempting to identify unknown minerals

What is color?

200

this is the color of the powder left behind when a mineral is scratched on a plate

What is streak?

300

what the Moh's scale measures

What is hardness?

400

This refers to the way a mineral reflects light.

What is luster?

500

These two properties deal with how a mineral breaks.

What are cleavage and fracture?

Misc

100

minerals with with a 1 symbol formula

Examples: Copper (Cu), Zinc (Zn), Gold (Au), Silver (Ag) 

What are native elements? 

200

Name a specific type of mining.  

What is open cut, strip mining, dredge, long wall, stope, or in situ leaching? 

300

This category of minerals make up 90% of the Earth's crust.

What are silicates?

400

Give examples of lusters.  

What is metallic, pearly, glassy, vitreous, etc. ? 

500

Name at least 3 of the characteristics of minerals.  

What is solid, inorganic, naturally occurring, definite chemical composition, and crystal structure?