Earth Science

Quarter 1 – Module 2 Rock-

Forming Minerals

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Exercises

Easy! Essay
1. Silicates like quartz are among the Earth’s most important natural resources.

There would be no computers, phones, glass, or bricks. All of these rely on silicate

minerals as raw materials. What other minerals are known to have important uses

like silicates?

Silver a soft, white, lustrous transition metal, it possesses the highest

electrical conductivity on any element and the highest thermal conductivity of any

metal. Silver has been used for thousands of years for ornaments and utensils,

trade and as the basis for many monetary system. Its value a precious metal was

long.

2. Is there a possibility for the physical characteristics of rock minerals to change

over time? Explain your answer.

Yes, Rock cycle starts with the igneous rock which start off as molten lava,

the molten rock comes to the surface, forms a lava, hardens into a rock. After time

the external processes start on and break apart the rocks and to produce sediments

and carried in a river to the ocean or a beach and produces sedimentary rocks but if

then if its bury the sands stone deep within the Earth as it gets deeper, hotter,

higher pressure and it changes it into metamorphic rock, metamorphism is caused

by heat, pressure if its continue to heat the rock it will melt then repeat the rock

cycle again. In addition weathering is the process of disintegration (physical) and

decomposition (chemical) of rocks. The end results of continuous weathering is

loose fragments of rocks and minerals that cover the surface of the Earth. By this

process there is a possibility for the physical characteristics of rock minerals to

change over time.

Exercises

Minerals in Common Products

Direction: Research on the different kinds of minerals found in common products

that you use every day.

1. Lipstick

In lip-stick include minerals such as mica, iron oxides, titanium dioxide, tin

oxide, silica, soy glyceridesfor glimmer. 

2. Glass

Common minerals that are used in glass production include antimony,

feldspar, lead, lithium, quartz, silica, sodium carbonate, tantalum, calcite,

gypsum, muscovite mica and orthoclase. The principal ingredient of glass is

sand, which is primarily composed of quartz or silica.

3. Toothpaste

 Fluoride is a mineral found in toothpaste and naturally occurring in

drinking water and certain foods. The mineral is normally white or

colorless and can be found all over the earth’s surface.

4. Table Salt

 Table salt is 97% to 99% sodium chloride, NaCl. Pure sodium chloride is

an ionic crystalsolid. However, other compounds are present in table salt,

depending on its source or additivesthat may be included before

packaging.  In its pure form, sodium chloride is white.

5. Laundry Powder Detergent

 linear alkylbenzene sulfonate