Unit Three - Rock and Minerals - All About Minerals

Question 1

What Are Minerals?

Answer 1

The building blocks needed to form different types of rocks

Question 2

What are the five requirements in order for a piece of mass to be considered a rock?

Answer 2

1. Naturally Occuring
2. Inorganic
3. Solid
4. Definite Structure
5. Atoms are arranged in repeating patterns

Question 3

Meaning of Inorganic

Answer 3

Non-Living

Question 4

What is a crystalline solid?

Answer 4

Atoms are arranged in a repeating pattern

Question 5

What three methods are minerals formed and what do they all have in common?

Answer 5

1. Crystallization
2. Recrystallization
3. Rearrangement
4. All minerals form from a liquid to a solid

Question 6

What is the process of crystallization?

Answer 6

Dissolved minerals in water later form into crystalline solids

Question 7

What is the process of recrystallization?

Answer 7

The cooling and hardening of molten material.

Question 8

Rearrangement

Answer 8

The rearrangement of atoms under high temperatures and pressure.

Question 9

Definition of Silicates

Answer 9

A silicate is a general classification of certain minerals.
- Has to have 4 O2 atoms and 1 Si
- Tetrahedral Shape with Si in center and O2 atoms bonded to that center

Question 10

What is responsible for the chemical and physical properties a mineral possesses?

Answer 10

The crystal structure or “internal arrangement of atoms”