Minerals
More than 4,000.
The number of minerals scientists have discovered in Earth's crust.
A naturally formed non-living Earth material.
What is a rock?
Resources that can be continually produced for our needs.
What is renewable?
a rock formed from cooling magma
what is igneous rock?
the shininess of a mineral
what is luster?
X-ray Diffraction
What is the most common laboratory technique used to identify a mineral?
...by the minerals they contain and their texture.
How are rocks identified?
Resources that cannot be continually produced for our needs.
What is non-renewable?
a rock that has been changed by extreme heat and pressure
what is a metamorphic rock?
mass devided by volume
what is density?
Hardness, color, luster and odor.
What are the physical properties of a mineral?
a rock made of grains of all one mineral type.
What is a quartzite?
sunlight, moving water, wind, biomass and geothermal energy.
What are renewable energy resources?
rocks that are formed in bodies of water after particles have settled to the bottom.
what is sedementary rock?
tedancy to break on planes of weakness
what is clevage?
Solid, crystalline, naturally occuring, inorganic and a specific chemical composition.
What are the qualities of a mineral?
The description of a rock's size, shape and arrangement of mineral grains.
What is a rock's texture?
The stored chemical energy of trees and other plants.
What is biomass energy?
a solid form of the element carbon with its atoms arranged in a crystalized structure.
what is a dimond?
patter in witch a material breaks
what is fracture?
Shining an x-ray light on a sample and observing how the light exiting the sample is bent.
What is X-ray diffraction?
An example of a rock that is not made of minerals.
What is coal?
These materials are non-renewable but very abundant that running out is no issue.
What are gravel and sand?
a mineral composed of silicon and oxygen atoms in a continuous framework.
what is Quartz?
an object that scratches another object
what is hardness?