26.1 vocab

Question 1

mineral

Answer 1

inorganic solid with a crystalline form

Question 2

streak

Answer 2

the color of a mineral in powdered form

Question 3

cleavage

Answer 3

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

Question 4

fracture

Answer 4

minerals that break with irregular surfaces

Question 5

hardness

Answer 5

the property that measures a mineral’s resistance to scratching

Question 6

magma

Answer 6

molten rock material inside earth

Question 7

a mineral is?

Question 8

what are the two most abundant elemnts that make up earth’s crust?

Question 9

what does inorganic mean?

Question 10

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

Question 11

what are all the ways to identify minerals?

Answer 11

luster, streak, hardness, cleavage, fracture, atomic arrangement, crystal shape

Question 12

what are the two types of luster?

Answer 12

nonmetallic metallic

Question 13

how does metallic luster reflect light?

Answer 13

very easily like a peice of metal

Question 14

how does nonmetallic reflect light?

Answer 14

shine like glass or appears earthy or waxy

Question 15

how do you perform a streak test?

Answer 15

a mineral on a ungkazed

Question 16

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

Answer 16

cleavage and fracture

Question 17

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

Question 18

what is the number range on Mohs Scale of Hardness?

Question 19

How many different crystal shape systems are there?

Question 20

minerals grow from what?

Answer 20

the inside out

Question 21

what are the 3 ways minerals can form?

Answer 21

moltenrock, hot water, evaporation

Question 22

what are the two mineral groups?

Answer 22

silicates and non silicates

Question 23

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

Answer 23

silicates

Question 24

what elemnts are the Silicates made up of?

Answer 24

oxygen and silicon

Question 25

nonsilicates do not contain what element?

Answer 25

silicon

Question 26

what mineral is used to make glass?

Answer 26

quartz