Which section (color) of the periodic table shows where nonmetals are located?
Right side (yellow)
Which section (color) of the periodic table shows where metals are located?
Left side (blue)
What tool is used to measure mass?
Triple Beam Balance
Why is using only appearance to identify minerals unreliable?
Many minerals come in different colors and the appearance of the color can be subjective.
What are the properties of metalloids?
It has properties of both metals and nonmetals. It is also a semi-conductor.
A substance that can be drawn into wires is ___________.
Ductile
If you add salt to water, what is going to happen to the density of the water?
The density of the water will increase.
Which test shows a minerals ability to be scratched?
Hardness Test
A substance that can be hammered into sheets and bent into other shapes without breaking is _____________.
Malleable
Which objects would the mineral Apatite be able to scratch?
Fingernail, copper penny, and iron nail
Given the hardness chart, what is the possible hardness of a mineral if it scratches your fingernail but not a copper penny?
3
You found a mineral with a mass of 45.7 g and a volume of 18 cm3. What is the mineral’s density?
2.54 g/cm3 (rounded to the hundredths place)
How do you calculate the volume of a cube/rectangular prism?
length x width x height
Which test shows the powder that is left behind when a mineral is scraped?
Streak Test
What are the properties of nonmetals?
Dull, Brittle, Insulator
List at least 3 characteristics of metals (using our unit vocabulary words).
Luster, Malleable, Conductor, Ductile
Antonio found a brick on the road and wanted to find its density. It had a mass of 2,000 grams. Its sides measured 10 x 5 x 15 cm. What is the brick’s density?
2.67 g/cm3
What is the density of water?
1 g/mL
Bonquisha found a mineral that had a volume of 12 cubic centimeters and a mass of 31.8g. Which mineral did she find?
Quartz (2.65 g/cm3)
A student needs to find the volume of a marble. She places the marble in graduated cylinder filled with 25 mL of water. The water rises to 28.4 mL. What is the volume of the marble?
3.4 mL
What is the volume of the green jade sample?
10.5
How do you find the volume of an irregular shaped object?
You use a graduated cylinder to find the displacement of the object.
Oil sits on top of water, so which one is more dense?
Water
Which section (color) of the periodic table shows where metalloids are located?
Staircase (pink/red)
What is the name of the scale that ranks minerals from softest to hardest?
Moh's Hardness Scale
If a material's surface can reflect light, then it has ________.
Luster
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