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Vocabulary
Gem Characteristics
100
A mineral is crystalline _______.
What is solid
100
What refers to the repeating patterns in which atoms are arranged in a crystal
What is crystal structure.
100
What qualities of a mineral classify it as an ore? Would it be usefulness and profitability or making automobiles?
What is usefulness and profitability.
100
A naturally occurring, inorganic, crystalline solid is a
What is a mineral
100
Crystals may be cubic or hexagonal?
What is cubic
200
Most minerals are composed of
What is silicon and oxygen
200
a mineral is classified as an ore as long as it is
What is profitable and useful
200
Most common rock forming mineral is
What is silicates
200
A durable, lightweight metal derived from minerals such as ilmenite or rutile is what
What is titanium
200
A salt crystal is what shape
What is cubic
300
What properties make titanium useful for tennis rackets and wheelchairs. Is it lightness and durable or useful and profitable?
What is lightness and durable
300
What qualities/shapes of a stone would make it a gemstone. Would it be their lightness, durability or rarity.
What is rarity
300
What qualities of a stone would make it a gemstone?
What is beauty and rarity
300
The property of a mineral that shows the color of its powder is called what
What is a streak
300
Two types of cleavage
What is metallic and luster
400
When a liquid evaporates, mineral molecules come together for form what?
What are ions
400
The valuable, rare shaped, and beautiful minerals called ________ are often used for jewelry.
What are gems
400
Minerals are mined for titanium because of their ilmenite or their rarity
What is ilmenite
400
Hot, melted rock beneath the surface of the Earth is called?
What is Magma
400
One of the softest minerals is?
What is graphite
500
Explain two ways minerals form?
What magma and solution
500
What is a solid with repeating arrangements of atoms
What is a crystal
500
List 4 properties that help identify minerals
What is Color, streak, hardness, luster, cleavage, fracture, sp. gravity
500
Mineral deposits left behind that fill in the open spaces created by weaknesses in rock formations are called what?
What is vein mineral deposits.
500
The German Scientist Frederich Mohs developed a scale to measure what
What is hardness