Rocks and Minerals B/C

[SciBomb97]

Anyways, just as a conversation starter..
What specimens/ questions have you all been coming across at your competitions?

At state, there was a question about the Law of Superposition.

[Skink]

Oh, remember your state mineral and rock.

State mineral was on one of the invite tests, too, but does IL even have a state rock? I did some searching and found nothing. We have a state everything-else, though.

[hexagonaria]

Anyways, just as a conversation starter..
What specimens/ questions have you all been coming across at your competitions?

At state, there was a question about the Law of Superposition.

Yeah, I had a station on that at WSU. Luckily, we learned about that stuff in Earth Science this year, so I knew all about it

[Kokonilly]

Anyways, just as a conversation starter..
What specimens/ questions have you all been coming across at your competitions?

At state, there was a question about the Law of Superposition.

Yeah, I had a station on that at WSU. Luckily, we learned about that stuff in Earth Science this year, so I knew all about it

Yep, we got a question on that at state. Thank goodness for Fossils

[aznluvsricemhm]

Does anyone know where I can find some more rocks and minerals tests? Thanks

[Constellations]

I love these types of study events when it comes to preparing for them, but what I hate about this is that often times, I do practice tests using real samples my teacher has gathered... and on the day of the competition, the stations have more pictures than real samples. This makes it a bit hard to identify the specimens right. This also happened to me in Fossils in the last 2 years.

[solakmagic]

Who knows good links for the way minerals and crystal form?? And can anyone point me to a reliable, detailed glossary of terms?? Much obliged.

[Kadabrar]

Totally need to get a head start for next year. This year was...bleh. The list shouldn't change much, right?

[SciBomb97]

I'd try to get the technical stuff learned first, it seems to take the longest to learn and you can save a lot of binder-searching time at competition by knowing it.

[thsom]

Why is there an asterisk next to silver and diamond and gold in the list?