Question

Please complete the following questions below before Friday, March 19th at 11:59 PM EST.

1. Write down where you have heard of minerals before, and the names of any minerals that play a role in your everyday life.

2. What is the density of cinnabar?

3. You might be familiar with term organic food. How does this meaning of organic differ from the scientific meaning?

4. What type of minerals might a geologist expect to find near the site of an ancient lava flow? Explain.

5. Why do diamonds only form in certain spots in the mantle?

Answer 1

number one
- pencil; graphite and clay
- pots/pans; illumine iron metal

number 2
density 8

Answer 2

Number one!

Toothpaste: Calcium carbonate, limestone, sodium carbonate, fluorine

Medicine: Calcium carbonate, magnesium, dolomite, kaolin, barium, iodine, sulfur, lithium

Pencil: Graphite, clay

Pots and pans: Aluminum, iron

Number two!

Density: 8.

Number three!

Organic foods have not been treated with synthetic pesticides or fertilizers, and animals raised organically are not given hormones or drugs to promote more rapid growth.

Number four!

Volcanic fluids and hot seawater move through the volcanic rocks and leach metals. The deposits are associated with lava flows, breccia, water-deposited tuffs, cherts, sulfates, and limestones.

Number 5!

The carbon rocks and high temperatures needed for diamond creation can be found 90 miles deep into the earth's crust.