A mixture in which one substance is dissolved in another.
What is a solution?
100
A manmade mixture of metals.
What is an alloy?
100
Softest mineral.
What is talc?
100
The amount of material in an object.
What is mass?
200
Color of a minerals dust.
What is streak?
200
A narrow channel or slab of a mineral that is different from the surrounding rock.
What is a vein?
200
The source rock of metal
What is an ore?
200
Created a way to identify hardness of a mineral.
Who is Mohs?
200
The space that an object occupies.
What is volume?
300
How a mineral reflects light.
What is luster?
300
The process where a mineral leaves a hot water solution as the water cools.
What is crystallization or precipitation?
300
The process of securing pure metal from a mineral.
What is smelting?
300
This can scratch all substances.
What is diamond?
300
The attraction of the Earth for an object.
What is weight?
400
Breaking along planes of weak bonds.
What is cleavage?
400
A crystal lined rock.
What is a geode?
400
An uncut, unpolished gem.
What is a gemstone?
400
When creating a powder to keep our feet dry on a hike, we couldn't find any talc so we used this neighbor.
What is gypsum?
400
A relationship between mass and volume.
What is density? D=M/V
500
Qualifications required to be a mineral.
What is naturally occurring, inorganic, crystalline, solid with a definite chemical composition?
500
Three ways crystals can form.
What are evaporation, precipitation, and crystallization?
500
Three types of mining.
What are pit mining, strip mining, and shaft mining?
500
You don't have any tools and must find the hardness of an unknown mineral. However, you do have samples of the rocks on the scale of hardness. Thus you use this.
What is relative hardness?
500
The density of a mineral with a volume of 9 cubic centimeters and a mass of 35.9 g.