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Rocks & Minerals - Advanced

Overview

This honor builds on the Rocks and Minerals Honor by taking youth deeper into the study of mineral identification, crystal structures, hardness, mineral uses, and geological terminology. It combines scientific knowledge with hands-on collecting and identification.

Learning this honor will help develop the Pathfinder’s abilities in mineral identification, geological observation, scientific classification, field collecting, and practical understanding of Earth’s natural resources, while also connecting the study of geology with the Adventist perspective on creation and nature.

Requirements

1. Have the Rocks and Minerals honor.

2. Have a collection of 30 rocks and minerals properly named, 20 of which you have personally collected. Label with collector’s name, date and locality in which it was found.

3. Know two minerals that belong to each of the following crystal systems:

  • a. Isometric
  • b. Hexagonal
  • c. Tetragonal

4. Know Mohs’ scale of hardness and the simplified field tests of hardness. By using these field tests, collect a scale range of specimens from your own region to form your own hardness test set.

5. Do one of the following:

  • a. Know and tell two different processes by which metals are extracted from ores.
  • b. Know eight minerals and tell how each is used.

6. Define the following:

  • a. Crystalline
  • b. Cryptocrystalline
  • c. Breccia
  • d. Noncrystalline
  • e. Fibrous fracture
  • f. Vitreous luster
  • g. Geode
  • h. Petrification
  • i. Stalactite
  • j. Fluorescence

7. What four metals are frequently found in native or free form?

8. Discuss the content of three statements from the writings of Ellen G. White concerning rocks or minerals.

Answer key & resources

Master awards

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Investiture Achievement

This honor is required, suggested or listed as an option in:

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