Rocks and Minerals Part 1
1. What are the new concepts you have learned in nature and characteristics of minerals, physical properties of minerals, and silicates and non silicates minerals?
The new concepts that I have learned are;
The concept of hardness and how it helps to identify a mineral
The difference between color and streak
2. What concepts you find too difficult to understand? And Why?
I find complicated the orientation and number of planes of weakness within a mineral.
3. In what situation you may apply the new concepts you have learned?
I can apply the Moh’s Scale of Hardness in determining if what mineral is the hardest among others.