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How are minerals formed
Classifying minerals
How can minerals be identified
What do minerals have in common
What are minerals
100
Many minerals grow from this molten rock.
What is magma?
100
This type of non silicate mineral is composed of one element
What is a native element?
100
This property is the color of a mineral's powdered form.
What is streak?
100
This is a mineral with a definite volume and shape
What is a solid?
100
This is a naturally occurring, inorganic solid with a crystalline structure and a chemical composition
What is a mineral?
200
When minerals come out of a solution they do this.
What is precipitate?
200
These are minerals that contain silicon and oxygen, and they make up most of the earth's crust.
What are silicate minerals?
200
The way a mineral's surface reflects light is this property.
What is luster?
200
This has to do with minerals because it is determined by the element or compound that makes up the mineral
What is chemical composition?
200
This is a pure substance that cannot be broken down into simpler substances by ordinary chemical means
What is an element?
300
This mineral is formed by metamorphism and is used in pencils
What is graphite?
300
These are minerals that do not contain the silicate tetrahedron building blocks
What are non silicate minerals?
300
This property is the tendency of a mineral to to split along weak planes to form a flat, smooth surface.
What is cleavage?
300
These are not made of living things
What are inorganic minerals?
300
These are the building blocks of matter
What is a solid?
400
Minerals form when magma reaches the surface and becomes this.
What is lava?
400
These are compound that form when an element combines with oxygen
What is oxide?
400
The way a mineral breaks unevenly across planes is this property.
What is fracture?
400
Minerals are not always made of these
What are crystals?
400
This is anything that has volume and mass
What is matter?
500
When water evaporates it creates minerals made from this.
What are solutions?
500
2 This mineral contains carbon and oxygen, or CO 3
What is carbonate?
500
This property is the measure of how much matter is in a given amount of space.
What is density?
500
This is a substance made up of molecules of two or more elements
What is a compound?
500
This is the amount of space an objects takes up
What is volume?