G100: Earth Revealed

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Episode 12: Minerals: The Materials of Earth

 

The questions for those who want to copy into Word:

1. What are the five characteristics of a mineral. Using these requirements, is ice a mineral?

2. What is cleavage? How is the cleavage of mica different from the cleavage of feldspar?

3. What is the fizz test? Why do carbonate minerals (and rocks) react, but quartz does not?

4. Describe diamonds and graphite. How are they the same, but why are they so different?

5. What are the silicates, and why are silicate minerals so important?

 

 

For those using the "fill-in-the-form" method:

 

 

Your Name

 

Episode

 

What are the five characteristics of a mineral. Using these requirements, is ice a mineral?

 

What is cleavage? How is the cleavage of mica different from the cleavage of feldspar?

 

What is the fizz test? Why do carbonate minerals (and rocks) react, but quartz does not?

 

Describe diamonds and graphite. How are they the same, but why are they so different?

 

What are the silicates, and why are silicate minerals so important?

 

 

 

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