Minerals and Mineral Groups - Page 2
Questions
- How are minerals related to rocks ?
- What are some examples of halide minerals?
- How do minerals form from solution?
- What are four characteristics that all minerals share?
- Do the mineral groups carbonates, halides, or sulfides contain silicon?
- What are distinctive properties of a mineral?
- Lodestone is magnetic. How might you identify whether a mineral sample might be lodestone?
- What silicate mineral is the basic building block of many rocks?
- What are the five most common mineral groups found in rock?
- What is the difference between ore and mineral?
- What two states are not part of the contiguous US?
- What type of non-silicate mineral group does calcite belong to?
- Iron, copper, and aluminum and all examples of what type of mineral?
- What mineral group does calcite belong to?
- How are gems different from regular minerals?
- What are some examples of minerals that occur as elements instead of compounds?
- To what class of minerals do gold, silver, and copper belong?
- Of all the minerals known to man, how many are common on the crust of the earth?
- Which of the mineral groups is feldspar a part of Carbonates, Sulfides, Phosphates, Oxides, Halides, Native elements, Silicate materials, or Sulfates? What is the Transparency of feldspar?
- How do you tell a rock from a mineral?