Download Minerals

• Minerals
• Rocks
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The four characteristics of all
minerals.
• QUESTION:
What is solid, formed in nature,
definite chemical makeup, and
crystal structure?
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4 properties that can be used to
identify a mineral sample.
• QUESTION:
What are color, streak, luster,
cleavage or fracture, density, special
properties and hardness?
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The least reliable property for
identifying a mineral.
• QUESTION:
What is color?
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Mohs scale is measurement of this
mineral property.
• QUESTION:
What is hardness?
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The color of the powder left behind
when a mineral is rubbed across an
unglazed tile.
• QUESTION:
What is streak?
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The 2 types of luster.
• QUESTION:
What are metallic and nonmetallic?
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The hardness values (numbers) of
the minerals that a sample of quartz
(7) could scratch.
• QUESTION:
What is 1-7?
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The mineral property that is a
measurement of the amount of mass
in a given volume.
• QUESTION:
What is density?
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3 special properties that a mineral
could possibly have.
• QUESTION:
What are effervescence, conductivity,
radioactivity, fluorescence, twinning
and magnetism?
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This determines whether a mineral
displays cleavage or fracture.
• QUESTION:
What is the strength of the bonds
that hold the atoms together?
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The most common rock-forming
mineral group.
• QUESTION:
What are the silicates?
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The 2nd most common rock-forming
mineral group.
• QUESTION:
What are the carbonates?
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This mineral group is a combination
of a metal and oxygen.
• QUESTION:
What are the oxides?
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3 ways that a mineral could possibly form
within Earth and at the surface.
• QUESTION:
What is water evaporating, organisms
form shells or bones, hot water cools,
molten rocks cools, heat and pressure
cause changes?
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The 3 main uses of minerals.
• QUESTION:
What are art, technology, and
industry?
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The mineral used for making glass
in windows.
• QUESTION:
What is quartz?
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These are rocks that contain enough
of a mineral to be mined for a profit.
• QUESTION:
What is an ore?
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The 2 types of mining.
• QUESTION:
What are surface and deep mining?
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The 3 types of surface mining.
• QUESTION:
What are panning, strip mining
and open-pit mining?
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2 differences between minerals and
rocks.
• QUESTION:
What is a mineral has a definite
chemical makeup, crystal structure
and is inorganic?
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The three types of rocks.
• QUESTION:
What is sedimentary, igneous, and
metamorphic?
• ANSWER: The type of rock formed
at location A.
• QUESTION:
What is an intrusive igneous rock?
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The process in which atoms rejoin
together differently as a result of heat
and pressure breaking the bonds that
initially join atoms in minerals.
• QUESTION:
What is recrystallization?
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The mineral that makes igneous
rocks lighter in color.
• QUESTION:
What is silica?
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The name of an igneous rock that
contains no minerals.
• QUESTION:
What is pumice or obsidian?
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The percentage of Earth’s crust that
is made of sedimentary rock.
• QUESTION:
What is 5%?
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The 2 types of igneous rocks.
• QUESTION:
What are intrusive and extrusive?
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The least durable or least weatherresistant rock type.
• QUESTION:
What is sedimentary?
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2 reasons why a metamorphic rock
may be nonfoliated.
• QUESTION:
What is the rock was not exposed to
high enough pressure or it is made of
only one type of mineral?
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The name and type of rock that is
composed of dead wood, bark,
leaves, stems and roots.
• QUESTION:
What is coal and sedimentary?
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The carbonate mineral that makes
up limestone.
• QUESTION:
What is calcite?
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3 features found in sedimentary
rocks that can provide information
about Earth’s past.
• QUESTION:
What are crossbeds, ripples and
mud cracks?
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The process in which an existing
rock is changed by heat and
pressure.
• QUESTION:
What is metamorphism?
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The difference between large and
small scale metamorphic changes.
• QUESTION:
What is large scale involves both
heat and pressure while small scale
only involves heat or pressure?
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The arrangement of minerals in flat
or wavy parallel bands.
• QUESTION:
What is foliation?
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The metamorphic rock that slate
changes into when exposed to
increased temperature and pressure
• QUESTION:
What is phyllite?