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Unit 4 - November/December
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November Week 2
Students should be able to relate the abundance of mineral-forming elements with the processes/conditions required to form them.
Identify minerals at or near Earth’s surface and relate these to the Earth’s general structure, plate tectonics, and chemical and physical weathering.
Relate how the structure and composition determine the properties of silicates, carbonates, and oxide minerals; relate cleavage patterns of minerals to atomic structure and bonding arrangement.
Plan/conduct an investigation to identify minerals based on their physical/chemical properties, such as hardness/color/luster/density (specific gravity)/cleavage/fracture/streak, and effervescence.
Identify formation processes by attributes observed in rock forming and ore mineral samples; utilize a table of mineral properties to identify and/or classify an unknown mineral.
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