Chapter 4

Question 0

What Dissolves in the hot water to form solutions

Answer 0

Minerals

Question 1

What is water heated by

Answer 1

Magma

Question 2

What leaves the solutions during cooling?

Answer 2

Elements and compounds

Question 3

What do elements and compounds do when they leave

Answer 3

Crystallize as minerals

Question 4

The minerals form a long channel or slab in the rock called a

Answer 4

Vein

Question 5

What are the two ways minerals form

Answer 5

1. crystallization of melted materials.

2. crystallization of materials dissolved in water.

Question 6

How do small crystals form

Answer 6

Fast cooling

Question 7

How do big crystals form

Answer 7

Slow cooling

Question 8

How do minerals for pm near ocean ridges

Answer 8

1. Water seeps down through cracks in crust.
2. water meets magma and cools to high temperature.
3. water dissolves minerals from crust rushes up through chimneys.
4. when cooled minerals crystallize they settle to the ocean floor

Question 9

How do halite deposits form

Answer 9

When the ancient seas slowly evaporate

Question 10

What is a mixture of one substance dissolves in another

Answer 10

Solution

Question 11

What is a narrow channel of slab of a mineral that is sharply different from the surrounding rock.

Answer 11

A vein

Question 12

Name all 5 mineral properties

Answer 12

1. hardness
2. color
3. streak
4. luster
5. density
6. crystal systems
7. cleavage and fracture
8. crystal systems

Question 13

What is cleavage

Answer 13

The property of splitting across even surfaces

Question 14

What is streak

Answer 14

The color of a minerals powder

Question 15

What is a luster

Answer 15

How a mineral reflects light from its surface

Question 16

What is a Compound

Answer 16

Two or more elements chemically joined

Question 17

What is fluorescence

Answer 17

The property of glowing under ultraviolet light.

Question 18

What is fracture

Answer 18

How a mineral breaks apart when it does not split evenly

Question 19

What is the MOHs hardness scale

Answer 19

Ranking of minerals from softest to hardest

Question 20

What is a crystal

Answer 20

The repeating pattern of a mineral particles in a solid

Question 21

What is a element

Answer 21

A substance composed of a single type of Atom

Question 22

What is a mineral

Answer 22

Naturally occurring inorganic solid that has a crystal structure and definite chemical composition

Question 23

What does inorganic mean

Answer 23

Not Formed from living things or the remains of living things.

Question 24

What is a crystal

Answer 24

A solid in which the Atoms are arranged in a pattern that repeats again and again

Question 25

What is a element

Answer 25

A substance composed of a single kind of atom

Question 26

What is a compound

Answer 26

A substance in which two or more elements are chemically joined

Question 27

What is the Mohs hardness scale

Answer 27

Scale ranking minerals from the softest the hardest use them testing the hardness of minerals

Question 28

What is a streak

Answer 28

The color of a mineral powder

Question 29

What is a luster

Answer 29

The way a mineral reflects light from its surface

Question 30

What is a fracture

Answer 30

The way mineral looks when it breaks apart in the regular way

Question 31

What is cleavage

Answer 31

And minerals ability to split easily a long flat surfaces

Question 32

What is florescence

Answer 32

The property of a mineral and watch the middle glows under ultraviolet light

Question 33

What is a solution

Answer 33

A mixture in which one substance is dissolved in another

Question 34

What is a vein

Answer 34

And narrow slab of a mineral that a sharply different from the surrounding rock