1. Minerals: Building Blocks of Rocks Honors Earth Science Hinsdale South High School

3. How are rocks and minerals similar & how are they different?

4. What are the major rock forming minerals?

5. What defines a mineral resource? Basic knowledgeof Earth Materials is essential to the understanding of all Earth Science Phenomena

7. Rocks

8. Multiple minerals are typical

9. Occur as mixtures

11. Must be inorganic (never alive)

12. Must be a solid

14. Mineral is a unique substance

15. defined by chemical composition

16. Internal structure

17. Questions

18. What elements make up a mineral?

19. What pattern exists when the elements bonded together?

21. Electron Cloud

22. Protons (+)

23. Neutrons (0)

24. Electrons (-)

25. At Number

26. Atomic Mass

27. Isotopes

29. Atomic Structure

30. Compound Two or more elements Bonded together in definite proportions Ions

31. Bonding Covalent Bonds http://tinyurl.com/mfqp9a Ionic Bonds

32. Isotopes and Radioactive Decay Atomic Mass Unit (AMU) Mass Number Radioactive Decay Isotopes

33. Properties of Minerals Crystal form Luster Color Streak Hardness Cleavage

34. Properties of Minerals http://home.mindspring.com/%7Ecms-stuff/id10.html

35. Earth Materials - Mineral Groups Rock forming Silicates - (Oxygen & Silicon – check Periodic Table for relationship) Non-silicate Minerals

36. Review Geology - The Science of Our World - MINERALS