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Question 1

What is a mineral?

Answer 1

naturally occurring inorganic solid with crystalline form.

Question 2

What are the most abundant elements that make up earth’s crust?

Answer 2

Silicon and oxygen

Question 3

What does inorganic mean?

Answer 3

Means nonliving

Question 4

What does the arrangement of an atom and the bonds between them reflect about a mineral?

Answer 4

How a minerals breaks,how hard it is, type of crystal shape

Question 5

What are all of the ways to identify minerals?

Answer 5

Hardness, Luster, streak, atomic arrangement. crystal shape,cleavage , and fracture.

Question 6

What are the two types of luster?

Answer 6

Metallic or nonmetallic

Question 7

How does metallic luster reflect light?

Answer 7

It reflects light how a metal surface might reflect light.

Question 8

How does nonmetallic luster reflect light?

Answer 8

Look like glass or appear waxy.

Question 9

How do you perform a streak test?

Answer 9

Rubbing a mineral against a white unglazed, whit porcelain tile.

Question 10

What are the two types of breakage that can happen to minerals?

Answer 10

Fracture or Cleavage

Question 11

What is the name of the scale to measure the hardness of a mineral?

Answer 11

Mohs scale

Question 12

What is the number range on mohs scale of hardness?

Answer 12

1-10

Question 13

How many different crystal shape systems are there?

Answer 13

There are 6 different crystal shapes.

Question 14

What do mineral grow from?

Answer 14

They grow from atoms added to the surface, edges, or corners.

Question 15

What are the 3 ways minerals can form?

Answer 15

They can form from hot water,molten rock, and from evaporation.

Question 16

What are the two mineral groups?

Answer 16

Silicates and non silicate

Question 17

Which mineral group is the most abundant in Earth’s crust?

Answer 17

Silicates

Question 18

What elements are silicates made up of?

Answer 18

silicon

Question 19

Non-sillicates contain what element?

Answer 19

carbonates, oxides,halides,sulfides,sulfates, and native metals.

Question 20

What mineral is used to make glass?

Answer 20

Quartz

Question 21

Mineral

Answer 21

naturally occurring inorganic solid with a crystalline form

Question 22

Streak

Answer 22

The color of a mineral in powdered form

Question 23

Cleavage

Answer 23

When a mineral breaks along preferred planes of weakness creating sets of smooth parallel sides

Question 24

Fracture

Answer 24

Minerals break with irregular surfaces

Question 25

Hardness

Answer 25

The physical property that measures a mineral’s resistance to scratching.

Question 26

Magma

Answer 26

Molten Rock material inside Earth