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Worksheet: Chapter 2.1
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Read pages 43-48. From this information, answer the following questions. You may work in groups.
What are the four characteristics of a mineral?
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Are the following things minerals? If you are not sure, read on. The answers are there.
Thing
Table Salt
Water
Ice
Quartz
Copper
Jello
Graphite
Granite
Talc
Oil
Halite
Is a mineral
Is not a mineral
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Are rocks minerals? Why or why not?
Name three types of minerals that are in granite.
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How is talc formed?
What is an element? Put your definition in your own words.
What atoms are in the mineral copper? What elements make up halite?
What atoms make up graphite and diamonds? How can we tell the difference between them?
What is the name of the most common group of crystals in the Earth’s crust? What two elements do these
crystals have?
What is the second most common group of crystals? What two elements do these crystals have?
Draw a pie chart of the most common elements in the Earth’s crust and their percentages of concentration.
Complete the Math is Science questions on page 49, including the challenge question if you have time.
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