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| Mineral | The building blocks of rocks. They are naturally occurring substances, which often have a crystalline form. They can be single elements. |
| Rock | A naturally occurring solid made up of minerals.. |
| Natural Resource | Anything supplied by nature that can be useful |
| Property | A characteristic that is used to identify a substance |
| Renewable Resource | Any natural resource that can be replenished naturally with the passage of time faster than it is used up. |
| Chemical Property | A characteristic used to identify a substance by changing the chemicals of the substance. |
| Non-Renewable Resource | Any natural resource that cannot be replenished naturally with the passage of time faster than it is used up. |
| Hardness Test | A physical property that shows a substances ability to scratch another |
| Streak Test | A physical property that shows the color of a substances powder when it is rubbed up against a harder substance. |
| Crystalline Shape | A physical property where one can see the geometric shape of a substance. |
| HCl Test | A chemical property that shows how a substances reacts to hydrochloric acid |
| Physical Property | Characteristics of minerals that are used for identifying them but which does not involve the changing of any of its substances. |
| Color | A physical property of minerals that is not always useful for identification as many minerals have the same characteristic. |
| Double Refraction | A physical property of minerals where light is bent as it passes through causing two images to be seen instead of one. |
| Granite | An igneous rock that contains the minerals quartz, feldspar and mica. It is frequently used for curbings, gravestones, counter tops, statues and even building materials. |
| Kimberlite | An igneous rock that can contain diamonds. |
| Limestone | A sedimentary rock made mostly of calcium carbonate also known as calcite |
| Fluorite | A green mineral we observed in class that also comes in many other colors. |
| Quartz | One of the three minerals found in granite that has a hexagonal crystalline structure. Ours was clear in color and transparent however, this mineral can have many colors. |
| Fossil | A sedimentary type of rock that can be seen as an imprint of a once living organism or as a mineral replacement of it. |
| Diamond | A mineral that is known to be the hardest of all known minerals. |
| Igneous | Rocks formed by solidification from a molten state; especially from molten magma |
| Metamorphic | Rocks that have been changed from its original form by subjection to heat and/or pressure |
| Sedimentary | Rocks made up from sediment (bits of dust, rocks, fossils and general rubbish) that settle and become crushed into one rock over thousands of years |
| Gneiss | A metamorphic rock that has a banded (striped) appearance and is made up of granular mineral grains. We observed this as a black and white striped rock. |
| Feldspar | One of the three minerals making up granite |
| Mica | One of the three minerals making up granite. By itself it looks like layered and brittle transparent sheets that can be peeled apart. |
| Obsidian | A black colored igneous rock that the luster of glass. |
| Marble | A metamorphic rock that can be polished and is used frequently for statues, floors and even wall materials. |
| Sandstone | A sedimentary rock that can have beige and brown stripes and that sand particles can be rubbed off of. |
| Coal | A black colored sedimentary rock made from the remains of prehistoric plants and animals. It has the scent of sulfur (matches) |
| Process of Elimination | Proceeding through a series of tests to identify a substance while crossing out characteristics that do not match the targeted outcome. |
