Name: Jhon Paul Lariba

Grade and Section:

Date: 09/21/21
Activity: Minerals, Rocks, and Exogenic Processes
Part I. Mineral identification
Directions: Please answer the following questions. Refer your answer on the table below.

Metallic & Nonmetallic

1. What are the two different types of lusters? ____________________________
2. What is the range of hardness found on the chart? How does this compare with Mohs’s
1 - 7.5
hardness scale? ______________________________
3. What type of breakage is more common: cleavage or fracture?
Cleavage
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4. What is the most common element found in the composition of minerals?
Oxygen
_______________________

5. For the mineral quartz, identity the following:

Non Hardness: ______
Luster: ______ 7 Fracture Color: Colorless
Breakage: ______ Si02
______ Composition: ____
6. For the mineral galena, identity the following:
Metalic
Luster: ______ 2.5 Breakage: Cleavage
Metallic Hardness: ______ Pbs
silver Composition: ____
______ Color: ______
7. For the mineral olivine, identity the following:
Non Hardness: ______
Luster: ______ 6.5 Fracture Color: ______
Breakage: ______ Fe (Mg)2 S1 O4
Green Composition: ____

8. For the mineral fluorite, identity the following:

Non Hardness: ______
Luster: ______ 4 Breakage: Cleavage
______ Color: Colorless CaF2
______ Composition: ____

Garnet
9. Which mineral can scratch glass, has a non-metallic luster, has fracture? _________________
10. Which mineral can be easily scratched by a finger nail, has cleavage, a metallic

Graphite
luster and has a black streak? ______________________
Mg3 Si4 O10 (OH)2
11. What is the chemical composition of talc? ______________________
Fracture
12. What is the dominant form of breakage for sulfur? ______________________
Cleavage
13. What is the dominant type of breakage for muscovite mica? __________________
Halite
14. Which mineral tastes salty? ______________________
Drywall
15. What is selenite gypsum used for? ______________________
Galena
16. Which mineral is a highly metallic luster and shows cleavage? __________________
Graphite
17. Which mineral is found in your pencil? ______________________
Galena
18. Which mineral might be found in your car battery? ______________________
19. Which mineral helps keeps schools open during snowy and icy weather by melting ice?
Halite
_____________________
20. Does the ESRT chart give characteristics for every mineral found on earth?
No
_____________________
 Part II. Physical and Chemical Weathering

Directions: Answer the following. Write the answer on the space provide. Decide if the following
descriptions are examples of physical and chemical weathering. Write the PHYSICAL or
CHEMICAL on the space provided.

PHYSICAL 1) Tree roots cracking the concrete foundation of the house.

PHYSICAL 2) Grinding of rocks

CHEMICAL 3) Oxidation of iron in rocks.

CHEMICAL 4) Dissolution of rocks in water.

PHYSICAL 5) Moles burrowing in rocks for habitat.

PHYSICAL 6) Repeated impact of ocean waves against the cliff.

CHEMICAL 7) Carbonic acid reacting on marble statues.

CHEMICAL 8) Mosses growing on the surface of the rocks.

CHEMICAL 9) Large rock falling from a cliff then breaks.

PHYSICAL 10) A once smooth road surface has cracks and fractures, plus a
large pothole brought by increase in road temperature.