Material for upcoming tests, quizzes, and possibly enriching your life experiences:

NEED TO KNOW:

Chemistry:
Atoms are made of protons, electrons, and neutrons

The atomic number is the number of protons and electrons. The atomic mass minus the atomic number is the number of neutrons. See previous posts for information about Bohr's models.


Minerals:
Minerals are: Sold, Inorganic, Naturally Occurring, Definite Chemical Structure
Minerals are differentiated by: color, luster, streak, hardness, specific gravity, texture, taste

Be able to identify galena, potassium feldspar, talc, halite, calcite, hornblende, and quartz

Rocks are made of minerals:

Here is http://www.learner.org/interactives/rockcycle/diagram.html

Meanwhile: The three rock types are sedimentary, metamorphic, and igenous

Be able to identify and sort the following rocks into their respective place on said cycle (i.e. are they metamorphic, sedimentary, igneous, sediment, or a gnome.

Granite, Basalt, marble, gneiss, schist, basalt, obsidian, diamond, gold, limestone, conglomerate, coquina, sand, silt, clay, sand

Rock cycle diagram:

As you all well know, no one draws better than me... however these folks may have figured out how to make a rock cycle diagram:



And... if you thought my diagram was complex:

Assignment due 12-2-10

This assignment is due the Thursday after we come back from thanksgiving break.

Go to this site, read through, complete this quiz: http://www.learner.org/interactives/rockcycle/testskills.html

Print, and bring it to class with your first and last name printed on the top right hand side.

Sites for Mining Research

Your destiny is to describe in detail the mining, the process of refining, and the use of a mineral. For example, if you were assigned Iodine you would find several sources around the globe. Discuss how it is mined and what outcome that mining has in the population around the mine, the refining process and what chemicals or machinery is used to make a usable product, and what it is used for.

Your other option is to do a paper about a mining site and the environmental justice around this particular mineral resource.

One such example if I were doing a report on Uranium mining I might look at this site: http://www.sric.org/Churchrock/index.html and describe everything happening in that political, social, and physical environment.

A rough outline should go something like:

1. The mineral:
The mineral itself, the physical structure and if possible the electron diagram. What is interesting or unique about the mineral, and whether it is a liquid, solid, or gas at room temperature. Also, is it liquid, solid, or gas when originally mined.

2. Mining:

a. Where in the world
b. What is the original product
c. Who mines it
d. Any health effects on those people
e. Any effects on the environment
f. How is it refined
g. What chemicals are used in the refining process and what happens to those chemicals after they are used.

3. Products

a. How are they used
b. What country or industry is the biggest consumer.

Conclusion: What you've learned, ways that the process can be improved.

We have not yet agreed as a class on a rubric, however, I hope to use something along the lines of this: Rubric for Paper

Mineral Identification

Minerals have the four following characteristics:

Solid
Inorganic (was never alive)
Naturally occurring (not man made)
Definite Chemical Structure

We differentiate minerals by their:

Streak, Color, Hardness, Specific Gravity, Luster, Cleavage

Galena - PbS


Halite - NaCl


Feldspar - KAlSi3O8
or

Also know Hornblende, Quartz, Talc, Olivine, Calcite, Biotite,