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Introduction to Minerals and Rocks During this presentation, record the names of minerals and rocks in a DIFFERENT color! If your answer is wrong, change it!
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Station 1 Name A: Talc Name B: Quartz Hardness Test
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Station 2 General Shape: Cube Name: Halite Cleavage: the tendency to break along flat surfaces
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Station 3 Petrified Wood Fallen wood buried in mud, ash, etc. Oxygen deprived and cannot decay Organic materials break down and create void Void gets filled with minerals and they crystallize
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Stations 4 - 6 Station 4: Sandgrains –Name: Sandstone Station 5: fossils Station 6: Smells like matches (sulfur)
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Station 7 Used for scouring pads Name: Pumice Extrusive Igneous Rock
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Station 8 Name: Galena Lead is extracted from galena
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Station 9 B is more densely packed Name –A: Feldspar –B: Galena
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Station 10 Used for baby powder Used to be called “soap stone” because it is slippery Name: Talc
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Station 11 Special property: Magnetic Name: Magnetite
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Station 12 One drop of HCl resulted in the rock “fizzing” Acid Test Name: Calcite
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Station 13 Rock is called “fool’s gold” It contains iron Name: Pyrite
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Station 14 You saw a double image of the word “science” Due to double refraction Name: Iceland Spar (Calcite)
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Stations 15 & 16 Station 15: Crystals formed with air pocket then solidified –Name: Geode Station 16: Clams in the mud caused the holes –Name: Mudstone
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Stations 17 & 18 Station 17: Gold ore taken from Homestake Mine in South Dakota Station 18: Copper, but turns green when it reacts with oxygen (i.e. Statue of Liberty)
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Station 19 (a) Red granite from Marathon City (b) Drilled for blasting
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Station 20 Names: Chert and Obsidian Used to be called volcanic glass Used for arrows and tools
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Station 21 (a) Coal (b) Used for fuel/heat
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Stations 22 - 24 Station 22: Agate Station 23: Iron Station 24: Animals, corals, sponge
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Stations 25 - 26 Station 25 –Metal: Aluminum –Mineral: Bauxite 26: –Used to be used for chalkboards –Name: Slate
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Stations 27 - 28 27: Shark tooth 28: Water erosion
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Station 29 From Cave: Dripping from ceiling Name: Stalactite (tight to the ceiling)
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Station 30 - 33 30: Graphite (not lead), used for pencils 31: Chalk 32: Sulfur 33: Copper ore
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Stations 34 - 38 34: Rocks, not bones. 35: Formed with gravel, pebbles –Name: Conglomerate 36: Rocks rubbed by water 37 Found in a cave –Name: Stalagmites –(might grow up to the ceiling) 38: Holes are probably caused by clams in mud –Name: Mudstone
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Station 39 Station 39: It is a sedimentary rock. We know this because of the stratification (layering) seen in this rock.
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Station 40 It floats because it is less dense than water. When it was formed, gas was trapped inside while the magma and other pyroclastic materials solidified quickly.
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