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Mineral Vocab
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Rocks! Rocks! Rocks!
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What is the hardest mineral?
What is a diamond.
100
Slow and underground.
How do minerals form?
100
This is a solid material that is made up of one or more minerals.
What is rocks.
100
People wear these during an experiment or lab to protect their eyes.
What is goggles.
100
The color of a mineral when it is ground into a powder is called this.
What is streak.
200
What is the softest mineral that can be scratched by a nail?
What is talc?
200
Seven
How many mineral types are there?
200
What are the 3 types of rock?
What is igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary.
200
A scientist who studies rocks and mineral is called this.
What is a geologist?
200
This property of a mineral determines how easily a mineral can be scratched.
What is hardness.
300
What is silver?
What is a mineral?
300
Silicates
What is the most abundant element on Earth's crust?
300
This rock is formed when molten rock cools and hardens.
What is igneous?
300
Scientist need to know that this solid object has a definite chemical make- up and makes up rocks.
What is a mineral?
300
This is the continuous process where rocks change from one rock to another.
What is the rock cycle.
400
If a mineral can be split easily along flat surfaces, it has what?
What is cleavage?
400
Mine or pan for them
What are the two ways to get minerals out of the ground?
400
This rock is formed by cementing layers if sediments, decay from one living things, and sand and dirt particles.
What is sedimentary?
400
The property of luster allows scientists to tell is a mineral is two things.
What is dull or glassy?
400
This type of rock if formed when existing rocks are changes by extreme heat and pressure.
What is a metamorphic rock?
500
What are the five properties of minerals?
What is luster, cleavage, streak, hardness, and color.
500
Color, Luster, Texture, Hardness, Clevage/ Fracture, Denisty and Gravity
What are the 7 ways to identofy a mineral
500
These two things cause sedimentary rock to change into a metamorphic rock.
What is heat and pressure.
500
The name of the scale that can be used to determine hardness.
What is Moh's Scale of Hardness?
500
This is the breaking down of rocks into smaller pieces called sediments.
What is weathering?