1. Tuesday 1/30/18
Notebook Entry: Below is a list of minerals and everyday objects that contain each one. Besides being a mineral, what is 1 other thing the minerals in the list have in common?
Graphite in a pencil
Salt you put on your food
Copper wire in your computer
Fluoride in your toothpaste
Quartz in mirrors

2. Super Blue Blood Moon Eclipse
Major Lunar Event
Super Blue Blood Moon Eclipse

3. Matter: anything that has mass and takes up space

4. is naturally occurring
A mineral…
is naturally occurring
forms by inorganic processes (not from something that is or was once living)

5. has a crystal structure (particles line up in a pattern)
A mineral…
is a solid
has a crystal structure (particles line up in a pattern)

6. A mineral
has a definite chemical composition (always contains certain elements)
CaF2 = Flourite

7. Element: a substance made up of only one kind of atom

8. Exit Ticket Finish the two sentences below.
Write your answers on the notecard.
I used to think a mineral was…. Look back at your definition from yesterday
Now I think a mineral is….