MIneral

Question 1

A mineral is?

Question 2

What are the two most abundant elements that make up Earth´s crust?

Answer 2

oxygen

Question 3

What does inorganic mean?

Answer 3

Inorganic means that minerals are materials that are not living

Question 4

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

Answer 4

how it breaks, how hard it is, and what types of crystal shape it has

Question 5

What are all of the ways to identify minerals?

Answer 5

luster, streak, hardness, atomic arangement

Question 6

What are the two types of luster?

Answer 6

metallic and nonmetallic

Question 7

how does metallic luster reflect light?

Answer 7

it reflects it very easily, reflects light in a way that a metal surface might

Question 8

how does nonmetal luster reflect light?

Answer 8

shines like glass and appear earthy or waxy

Question 9

how do you preform a streak test?

Answer 9

unglazed porciln tab

Question 10

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

Answer 10

cleavage and fraction

Question 11

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

Answer 11

mohs scale of hardness

Question 12

What is the number range on Mohs Scale is Hardness?

Question 13

How many different crystal shape systems are there?

Question 14

Minerals grow from the what?

Question 15

what are the three ways minerals can form?

Question 16

What are the two mineral groups?

Question 17

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

Question 18

What elements are silicates made up of?

Question 19

Nonsillicates do not contain what element?

Question 20

What mineral is used to make glass?

Answer 20

Naturally occurring, inorganic solid, and has a crystalline form