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Lab Properties Class/school Procedures The unknown 10 Point 20 Points 30 Points 40 Points 50 Points 10 Point 20 Points 30 Points 40 Points 50 Points 30 Points 40 Points 50 Points Rock & Mineral Uses Moh’s scale

Name for a mineral’s resistance to being scratched?

Hardness

You tried to scratch this in lab it determined +5 and -5 minerals?

Glass

Name of the softest mineral

Talc

This mineral has a hardness of 9?

Corundum (also acceptable are rubies or sapphires)

First name of the Mr. Moh – who developed Moh’s hardness scale?

Acceptable : Friederick Friedrich Friedrick Fredrick

Reflection of light off a mineral’s surface?

Luster

The way a mineral grows?

Crystal structure or crystal system

Tested by rubbing mineral on a bathroom tile?

Streak

Property that is LEAST useful in mineral identification

Color

Describe obsidians fracture

Conchoidal

Mineral name for rock salt?

Halite

Hardest substance on Earth used to cut rocks and other hard items

Diamond

Useful mixture of two or more metals

Alloy

This mineral is used to make sheetrock – walls in buildings?

Gypsum

Used to make glass?

Quartz

Place in class for lost items?

The lost and found/misc basket

List all the things you do if your absent?

Check absent basket AND ask a reliable friend for agenda/assignment AND the PTQ

This goes in the first column of your PTQ sheet?

The date

In the grade book which quarter is the next test going on?

2 nd quarter

Name three times you must not make a peep in science

Mrs. K (Keshian) and/or a student is speaking to class Reading time During a test

Rock that floats on water

Pumice

When you’re outdoors counting the chirps of a cricket can help you determine this

The Temperature

Some granite countertops emit this dangerous gas

Radon

Hurricane Katrina did a lot of damage to this major city?

New Orleans

Coal is used to make this color of food dye?

Red! FYI: some common red food dye is made from ground up bugs ick - I’d rather eat a rock

Make your wager

Most sand is made from the these two minerals – name just one?

Quartz or Feldspar