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What is a mineral?
Identifying Minerals
Mining of Minerals
Scientific Method/
Engineering Desing
Potpouri
100
Silicate and nonsilicate
What 2 groups are minerals divided into?
100
color
What is not the best way to identify a mineral?
100
ore
What is a mineral deposit large enough or pure enough to mine for a profit?
100
hypothesis
What is a possible explanation to a question?
100
mohs scale
What is hardness scale for minerals
200
element
What are pure substances which can't be broken down into simpler substances?
200
luster
What is the way in which a mineral reflects light?
200
reclamation
What is the process of returning land to its orginals condition after mining is complete?
200
independent variable
What is factor which changes in a controlled experiement?
200
density
What is the measure of the amount of matter in a given space?
300
Compound
What are substances made up of 2 or more elements?
300
streak
What is the color of the powder of a mineral?
300
surface and subsurface
What are 2 types of mining?
300
contol group
What is group not exposed to the independent variable?
300
specific gravity
What is an object's density compared to the density of water?
400
Mineral
What is a solid which is naturally formed and inorganic with a crystal structure?
400
cleavage
What is splitting of a mineral along smooth, flat surfaces?
400
gemstones
What are nonmetallic minerals valued for their beauty and rarity?
400
prototype
What is the test model in the engineering design process?
400
color, luster, hardness, cleavage, fracture, streak, density
What are the properties of minerals?
500
crystal
What is a solid whose atoms are arranged in a definite pattern?
500
fracture
What is breaking of a mineral along curved or irregular surfaces?
500
open pits, surface coal mines, and quarries
What are 3 types of surface mines?
500
ask, imagine, plan, create, improve
What are the steps of the engineering design process?
500
graduated cylinder and balance scale used together
What tools could be used in measuring density of objects without definite shape?