1. fully describe three typical ways that minerals form.
2. diamonds scratch glass. if someone gives you something clear and a little colorful and scratches glass with it, is it necessarily a diamond? (use the mohs hardness scale to answer this question.)
3. describe how geologists identify minerals they’ve found in the desert?
4. why is glass not a mineral?
5. what is the relationship between the way in which silicone oxygen tetrahedra bond in micas and the characteristic cleavage of micas?
6. the san gabriel have anorthosite in them that is identical to mineral that makes the moon white. true or false?
7. the san gabriel mountains started off as hills ten million years ago and rose dramatically in the last six million years. true or false?
8. the san gabriel mountains started off as hills ten million years ago and rose dramatically in the last six million years. true or false?
9. most minerals are: carbonates, silicates, sulfides, halides or oxides?