Today was a very exciting day filled with a mineral i.d. quiz, a igneous rock lab, and an episode of MAN VS WILD!!
We began class by testing our skills at identifying minerals. Each student was given two rocks, and we were allowed to use the information we gathered from our mineral identification lab in order to determine what mineral we had been given. In order to determine what kind of mineral our unknown specimen was, we had to use evidence from three supporting categories: its color, streak, luster, hardness, cleavage, magnetism, or acid reaction. I was given both fluorite and galena. I came to this conclusion because of fluorite's purple color, its good cleavage, and its subvitreous luster. I determined the second mineral was galena from its sleet color, its blackish grey streak, and its 2.5 hardness.
We then did a lab where we were given eight different igneous rock specimens plus a bonus rock. We had to draw and describe the rock in order to determine its specific name.
Finally, we watched an episode of MAN VS WILD. Bear was in the thick jungles of Panama, battling the high temperature and 100% humidity rate, and struggling to provide himself with food, water, and shelter. He ate a grasshopper and termites as his meal, gross!!! Other obstacles include his struggle to get across a 30 ft. deep trench by inching across a fallen tree limb.
UP NEXT IS MCKENZIE!!
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