Let’s see how much you’ve picked up with these experiments and the reading – answer as best as you can. (No peeking at the answers until you’re done!) Just relax and see what jumps to mind when you read the question. You can also print these out and jot down your answers in your science notebook.
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- What is the definition of a rock?
- What does it mean if there’s no streak left on the streak plate?
- Give an example of a kind of rock that leaves a streak a different color than its surface color.
- If a mineral scratches a penny but doesn’t get scratched by a nail, can you approximate its hardness?
- Give examples of the hardest and softest minerals on the Mohs’ Scale of Hardness.
- Name three properties geologists look for when they try to categorize a mineral.
- If you break a sample of quartz and find that it has no clean surfaces of separation, what kind of cleavage does it show?
- What are two things we use coal for?
- What is the equation for finding density?
- 10. How is fluorescence different from phosphorescence?
- Is lodestone the same as magnetite?
- Name three characteristics of pumice.
- What is a crystal, and how is it different from a mineral and a rock?
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