Characteristics
When a mineral's smell is typically strongest
When it's struck or has recently been dug up
Mass per unit of volume of a substance
What is density?
Five sediments that can make up sedimentary rocks
Two most common elements in Earth's crust
What is feldspar and quartz?
The study of minerals
What is mineralogy?
Three characteristics of metallic minerals
What is containing metals, reflects a lot of light, and has a shiny appearance?
The bending the light caused by the light's speed
What is refraction?
Two forms of energy emitted from radioactive materials
What are alpha and beta particles?
Four uses of minerals
What is construction, electronics, energy, and agriculture?
They don't have a crystalline structure and a definite chemical composition
What are rocks?
Most common radioactive minerals
What are uranium and radium?
Three ways igneous rocks are classified
What is shape, size, arrangement and distribution of minerals?
Five categories of non-metallic minerals
What are glassy, waxy, earthy, dull, and resinous?
One common use of lodestone
What is a compass?
Two minerals that have taste
What are arsenic and asbestos?
Minerals that have this are the only ones that dissolve in water
What is taste?
Determines a mineral's hardness
What is the strength of the bond between atoms and the internal arrangement of atoms?
Taste is an unreliable method in identifying minerals because.....
Some minerals can be toxic
Three uses for rocks
What are weapons, tools, and fossil fuels?
Used to measure the scratch resistance of minerals and gemstones
What is the Mohs scale?
Four basic characteristics all minerals share
What is found is Earth's crust, not made of living things, cannot be broken down into other components, and arranged in a repeating 3d pattern?
Occurs when an atom's nucleus decays and emits energy
What is radiation?
True or false: are rocks minerals
The ability to glow and change under UV light and continues to glow after the UV is taken away
What is fluorescence and phosphorescence?
Splits along flat surfaces and breaks along irregular lines
What are fracture and cleavage?