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What information do fossils provide about past life on Earth? What
information do fossils not provide?
Can you identify parts of a house that are made from minerals and
rocks? What parts and what specific minerals or rocks? Are there any
of those parts that could not be made for the house without some form
of minerals or rocks? Explain.
Most gemstones, such as topaz, rubies, sapphires, emeralds, and
diamonds, have a common mineral property that makes them
gemstones. What is this property? Is that property responsible for their
economic value? Why or why not?
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GLG 220 Week 1 Mineral Identification Worksheet (UOP)
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Resources: Ch. 2 of the text, Virtual Minerals Lab, Mineral
Identification Key II and Appendix 2 • Read the Introduction located
via the Table of Contents,Section 1 at Mineral Society of America’s
Mineral Identification Key II available at the following link:
http://www.minsocam.org/MSA/collectors_corner/id/mineral_id_keyi1.
htm#Intro After reviewing the introduction return to Table of Contents
and read about the Mineral physical property Hardness. • Conduct the
hardness test of the Virtual Minerals Lab located in the Materials
section of your student Web site. Record your answers in Appendix 2 -
Part 1. • Review the additonal physical properties discussed in the
resources above. Using the information gained from the concepts