Sunday, January 6, 2008

Day One: Minerals

Today, we are going to spend some time studying minerals. Read through these resources to learn all you can about minerals.

* Page 239 in your Science book.

* All About Minerals Powerpoint: http://www.rockwood.k12.mo.us/selvidge/moser/PDFs/Microsoft%20PowerPoint%20-%20Minerals.pdf

Now that you've read about minerals, post a comment to this blog answering the following questions.

1. What is a mineral?

2. How are rocks different from minerals?

Remember to answer RQIA (Restate the Question in the Answer). This is for a grade!

12 comments:

Anonymous said...

1.Minerals are natural, nonliving solid crystals that make up rocks.
number 3

2.Rocks are different from minerals because rocks are composed of two or more minerals. number 3

Anonymous said...

1. Minerals are natural,nonliving
solid crystals that make up rocks.


2.Rocks are diffrent from minerals cause composed of two or more minerals.

11.18

Anonymous said...

1.A mineral is a solid crystal.

2.Rocks are different from minerals because combos of 2 or more minerals


from 19 5

Anonymous said...

1. Minerals are natural, nonliving solid crystals that make up rocks.



2.minerals are made of one pure element, rocks are made of two or more elements. 13,1

Anonymous said...

#1. What is a mineral? A mineral is a natural nonliving thing. A naturally form inorganic solid with a definite crystal structure.

#2. What is the difference between a rock and a mineral?Rocks are composed of 2 or more minerals. These minerals form mixtures that we refer as rocks.

#4 and #14

Anonymous said...

1. minerals are different from rocks because minerals are natural, nonliving solid crystals that make up rocks.




2. How are rocks different from minerals? most rocks are made of different combinations of minerals. each type of rock always has the same combinations. 17 and 20.

Anonymous said...

1.Minerals are natural,nonliving solid crystals that make up rocks.

2.Minerals are not rocks they could be diamond.


#2

Anonymous said...

1.Minerals are nonliving crystals that make up rocks.
2.Rocks are composed of two or more minerals.

from.10 and 15

Anonymous said...

1.Minarals are natural nonliving solid cristals that
macks up a rock


2.A rock is differant than a minerals because thay are made up of two diffrent minarals


numbers 6 and 7

Anonymous said...

1.a mineral is each mineral has the
same chemical make up the mineral no mader were it is found.





2.the differtents of a rock is most rocks are made of diffenter combinations minerals.

12 8 20

Anonymous said...

I am going design a 3D square 8

Anonymous said...

I am going to design a 3D triangle number 3