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GPS S3E1 Minerals
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Minerals are made from | elements. |
| Minerals were never | alive. |
| How do we test how hard a mineral is? | The Moh's scale |
| The hardest mineral is | the diamond. |
| On the Moh's scale, the diamond is a | 10. |
| On the Moh's scale, talc is a | 1 0r 2. |
| What is the best way to identify a mineral? | by how hard it is |
| Minerals are in | rocks. |
| Scratching the mineral on tile to see what color it makes is called | a streak test. |
| A fossil in not a | rock nor a mineral. |
| You find something that looks like a crystal. It is a | mineral. |
| One attribute of a mineral is its luster. Luster means | how shiny or dull it is. |
| One attribute of a mineral is its texture. Texture means | how it feels. |
| One attribute of a mineral is its hardness. We test hardness with a | scratch test. |
| One attribute of a mineral is its color, but we can't always just use this because... | different minerals can be the same color. |
| A shape that repeats in pattern and color is a | crystal. |
| A common mineral we use every day is | salt. |
| Pencil lead is a mineral called | graphite. |
| Baby powder is a mineral called | talc. |
| Unlike a rock, a mineral is | the same all the way through. |