Minerals 5th grade

Minerals

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What is a mineral?

• a non-living solid found in nature

• scratching another mineral

• breaking another mineral

• the hardness

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What are the three properties of minerals?

• hardness, color, softness

• hardness, color, luster

• hardness, color, shape

• hardness, color, weight

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What is hardness?

• whether a mineral can break an object.

• whether a mineral can be broken.

• whether a mineral can scratch something else or be scratched.

• whether a mineral can be shiny

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The hardness of minerals is numbered from:

• 1-10

• 1-9

• 1-11

• 0-10

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What is the hardest mineral?

• Luster

• Rock

• Rock

• Diamond

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True or False:

Color CANNOT be used as the only property to identify minerals.

• True

• False

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Luster is:

• The color of a mineral

• The way light bounces off a mineral

• The way light appears on a mineral

• Whether a mineral can be scratched or can scratch something else.

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Read the summary statement. Then choose the image that matches the statement.

Minerals are nonliving solids that have crystal shapes. Garnet crystals are shaped almost like soccer balls.

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Read the summary statement. Then choose the image that matches the statement.

Different minerals reflect light in different ways. This property is called luster. Gold has a metallic luster.

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Read the summary statement. Then choose the image that matches the statement.

You see a mineral's streak color using a streak plate. Each mineral has a characteristic streak color. Graphite has a black to gray streak.