| Mineral Characteristic | ||
| #1 | This word means that the mineral could not arise form anything that was once living |
What is Inorganic? |
| #2 | A substance formed when 2 or more elements combine and lose their distinct properties is |
What is A Compound? |
| #3 | In a mineral, the particles line up in a repeating pattern to form.... |
What is A Crystal? |
| #4 | A substance composed of a single kind of atom is called |
What is An Element? |
| #5 | Minerals that glow under UV light has a property know as |
What is Florescence? |
| Identification of Minerals | ||
| #1 | The softest mineral is | What is Talc? |
| #2 | Geologists classify crystals into this many group structures | What is six? |
| #3 | This is the property of mass divided by volume |
What is density? |
| #4 | A mineral that splits apart easily along flat surfaces has.... |
What is cleavage? |
| #5 | A streak test shows.... |
What is the color of the minerals powder? |
| How minerals form | ||
| #1 | These are the cracks underground that hot water and metal follow, where metal crystallizes | What are veins? |
| #2 | Crystallization of melted materials and dissolving materials in hot water are... | What are the ways Crystals form? |
| #3 | Halite forms by.... |
What is Evaporation? |
| #4 | Rate of cooling, Gas in Magma and chemical compostion of Magma |
What are the things crystal size depends on? |
| #5 | When magma cools deep below the surface for a long period of time these form |
What are Large crystals? |
| Mineral Resources | ||
| #1 | Mineral from which metals can be removed in usable amounts are called | What are Ores? |
| #2 | These make useful tools because they are hard yet easily shaped | What are Metals? |
| #3 | The process in which an ore is melted to seperate the useful metals from other elements |
What is Smelting? |
| #4 | A solid mixture of two or more metals - an example is steel |
What is a alloy? |
| #5 | This type of mine is a network of tunnels that extend deep into the ground |
What is a shaft mine? |
| Misc | ||
| #1 | A rock that contains a metal or economically useful material | What is ore? |
| #2 | Many value minerals are found in or near these | What are volcanos? |
| #3 | The minerals that make up most of the rocks of the Earth's crust are called.... |
What are rock forming minerals? |
| #4 | Scars on the land, Pollute water, destory habitaits, health problems |
What are the environmental impacts of mining? |
| #5 | Observe Rocks and Plants growing in the area and Test stream for chemicals |
What geologists look for when prospecting ore? |
| Final Question | |
| Obsidian forms when Magma cools very quickly, creating a type of glass. Glass particles are not arranged in a orderly pattern but obsidian is a soild, inorganic substance that is naturally occurring in volcanic area. Should it be classified as a mineral? Why or why not? | No! Minerals, by definition, must have a solid crystalline structure. |