Minerals

Question 1

Mineral

Answer 1

Solid, natural occurring, in organic, repeating crystal pattern and definite chemical composition

Question 2

Luster

Answer 2

The way the light shines of the mineral

Question 3

Streak

Answer 3

The color of the mineral in powdered form

Question 4

Hardness

Answer 4

Scratch or be scratched

Question 5

Moes scale

Answer 5

A service of ten mineral used as a standard for hardness

Question 6

Crystal

Answer 6

The external appearance of a mineral as determined by its internal arrangement of the atoms

Question 7

Fracture

Answer 7

When minerals break and have rough edges

Question 8

Cleavage

Answer 8

The tendency to break off in flats planes

Question 9

Density

Answer 9

The ratio of mass to volume

Question 10

Gem

Answer 10

A cut polish mineral

Question 11

Silicate

Answer 11

A group of mineral that have oxygen and silicon as there basic building block

Question 12

Silicon-oxygen-tetrahedron

Answer 12

A structure comosed of 4 oxygen atoms surrounding silicon atom

Question 13

Element

Answer 13

A substance that can’t broken down

Question 14

Atomic number

Answer 14

The number of protons

Question 15

Energy level

Answer 15

Region around the Nuclues Where the electrons are located

Question 16

Isotope

Answer 16

An atom with the same number protons but different number of newtons

Question 17

Compound

Answer 17

A substance when two or more atoms combined chemical

Question 18

Chemical bond

Answer 18

A force that hold together atoms that hold a compound

Question 19

Ion

Answer 19

A atom that possesses a positive charge

Question 20

Ionic bond

Answer 20

A bond between two ions

Question 21

Covalent bond

Answer 21

A bond that forms when atoms share eletrons