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Characteristics of Minerals
Mineral Groups
Properties of Minerals
Formation of Minerals
Hodge Podge
100
Since all minerals have a definite volume and a rigid shape, we say all minerals are this
What is a solid?
100
Scientists classify minerals according to this
What is their chemical make-up?
100
Color of the powder left behind when a mineral is scraped across a surface
What is a mineral's streak?
100
When this evaporates minerals are left behind
What is water?
100
Talc and diamond are found on each end of this scale
What is the Moh's Scale?
200
Where all minerals are formed
What is in nature?
200
The most common group of minerals
What are the silicates?
200
Two types of luster
What is metallic and nonmetallic?
200
Gold forms beneath the surface of Earth when this cools
What is hot water?
200
Rocks that contain enough of a mineral to be mined for profit
What is ore?
300
All minerals consist of a specific combination of atoms of these substances
What are elements?
300
30 of the most common rock-forming minerals are found here
What is the Earth's crust?
300
Calcite has this property because it has a tendency to break along flat surfaces
What is cleavage?
300
These two types of molten rock form minerals when they cool
What are magma and lava?
300
Three special properties that some minerals may have
What are fluorescence, magnetism, and radioactivity?
400
This internal structure is characteristic of all minerals
What is a crystal structure?
400
Second most common group of minerals
What are the carbonates?
400
Quartz has this property because it breaks into irregular pieces
What is fracture?
400
These two factors within Earth cause bonds between atoms to break and join to form new minerals
What are heat and pressure?
400
Another name for a mineral's density
What is specific gravity?
500
Minerals are specifically defined by this
What is a chemical make-up?
500
Mineral group from which most metals such as tin and copper are refined
What are the oxides?
500
Amount of mineral's mass in a given volume
What is density?
500
Sea organisms may be a source of this group of minerals
What are carbonate minerals?
500
Three types of surface mining
What are panning, strip-mining, and open pit mining?