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Properties of Minerals
100
A substance that cannot be broken down into simpler substances by chemical or physical means.
What is an element?
100
A substance that consists of two or more elements that are chemically combined in specific proportions.
What are compounds?
100
A naturally occuring, inorganic solid with an orderly crystalline structure and definite chemical composition.
What is a mineral?
100
Minerals that contain the elements carbon, oxygen and one or more other metallic elements.
What are carbonates?
100
One characteristic or properties used to identify minerals.
What is color, streak, luster, crystal form, hardness, cleavage, fracture and density?
200
The smallest particle of matter that contains the characteristics of an element.
What is an atom?
200
Forces that hold atoms together in a compound.
What is Chemical bonds?
200
Minerals that contain oxygen and one or more elements, which are usually metals.
What are oxides?
200
The color of a mineral in its powdered form.
What is Streak?
300
The number of protons in the nucleus of an atom is called this.
What is the atomic number?
300
An atom that has an electrical charge because of a gain or loss of one or more electrons.
What is an ion?
300
The most common groups of minerals on Earth.
What are silicates?
300
Minerals that contain the element sulfur?
What are sulfates or sulfides?
300
Used to describe how light is reflected from the surface of a mineral.
What is Luster?
400
The region electrons are located.
What is energy levels?
400
*********DOUBLE JEOPARDY YOU CAN WAGER AS MANY POINTS YOUR TEAM HAS*************\ Metallic bonds form when electrons are shared by these.
What are metal ions?
400
Silicon and oxygen combine to form this structure.
What is a silicon-oxygen tetrahedron?
400
Minerals that contain a halogen ion plus one or more other elements.
What are Halides?
400
The visible expression of a mineral's internal arrangement of atoms.
What is Crystal form?
500
Atoms with the same number of protons but differ in the number of neutrons.
What are isotopes?
500
Covalent bonds form when atoms do this.
What is share electrons?
500
One of the four major processes by which minerals form.
What is crystallization from magma, precipitation, changes in pressure and temperature, and formation from hydrothermal solutions.
500
Minerals that only contain one element or type of atom.
What are Native Elements?
500
A measure of the resistance of a mineral to being scratched.
What is hardness?