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Identification
Uses
Formation
Characteristics
Misc.
100
This is how hard a mineral is on the Mohs scale from 1-10.
What is the hardness of a mineral?
100
One of the following is a mineral: sugar, water, or salt.
What is salt?
100
This is the difference between magma and lava.
What is magma is hot melted rock under the surface of the Earth, and lava is hot melted rock above the surface of the Earth?
100
This keeps its own shape and is a characteristic of all minerals.
What is a solid?
100
A mineral with a hardness of 8 would do this to a mineral with a hardness of 6.5.
What is scratch it?
200
This is the color of the powdered mineral.
What is streak?
200
Minerals are used to make glass and usually come from this.
What is sand?
200
Crystals form this way in magma.
What is magma cools slowly beneath the Earth's surface?
200
This means that the substance has never been alive and is a characteristic of all minerals.
What is inorganic?
200
This is the person the hardness scale was named after (you must give at least his last name).
Who is German mineralogist Frederich Mohs (1773-1839)?
300
This is how dull or shiny a mineral is.
What is luster?
300
Name three uses for minerals.
What is various, may include: metals for tools, gypsum for dry wall, talc for powder, gems for jewelry, or food additives.
300
Crystals can form when this happens to an area of water over time.
What is the water evaporates?
300
This means that no person has created the substance and is a characteristic of all minerals.
What is naturally occurring?
300
This is the word used to describe the combination of two or more elements.
What is compound?
400
This is how tightly compact the molecules of a mineral are.
What is density?
400
Metals are useful because of their ability to do this.
What is be hammered or molded into different shapes?
400
Larger crystals will form in magma or lava when this happens.
What is when the minerals cool very slowly?
400
This has a repeating geometric shape and is a characteristic of all minerals.
What is crystal structure?
400
This is the type of mine that has a network of tunnels that extend deep into the ground.
What is a shaft mine?
500
A mineral will break into one of these two catagories.
What is cleavage (flat surfaces) or fracture (uneven splitting)?
500
Alum is the mineral we used to make crystals. This is the general public use for this mineral.
What is pickling?
500
This is how the borax crystals were formed in Death Valley.
What is borax was deposited from rivers into an ancient lake. The lake evaporated leaving the borax behind?
500
An example of this is the mineral NaCl (salt) and is a characteristic of all minerals.
What is has a definite chemical composition?
500
This type of mine creates huge dug out areas in the ground.
What is a pit mine?