Rocks and Minerals Review

What question would NOT help you identify a mineral?

• What is its hardness?

• What is its weight?

• What is its color?

• What is its luster?

What question would NOT help you identify a rock?

• What is its color?

• What is its streak?

• What is its shape?

• What is its luster?

What characteristic helps identify a mineral?

• volume

• length

• mass

• luster

What happens when you rub a hard mineral against a soft mineral?

• The harder mineral will scratch the softer mineral.

• The softer mineral will scratch the harder mineral.

• The minerals will scratch each other.

• The minerals will not leave any scratches on each other.

What are rocks made of?

• sand

• fossils

• minerals

• weathering

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

What question could help me identify a mineral?

• What is its luster?

• What size is it?

• How much does it weigh?

• How was is formed?

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-2

What questions would help me identify a mineral?

• What is the weight, color, and luster?

• What is the color, luster, and hardness?

• What is the color, volume, and weight?

• What is the color, weight, and size?

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-1

What is luster?

• If the rock is shiny or dull.

• If the rock is hard or soft.

• What color the rock is.

• How much the rock weighs.

What is hardness?

• If the rock is shiny or dull.

• If the rock is hard or soft.

• What color the rock is.

• How much the rock weighs.

How a mineral reflects light is its....

• color

• luster

• hardness

• fracture

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS4-2