Canaan Middle School Lesson 1- Minerals

When minerals don't split apart evenly but instead break apart in an irregular way it is called ..

• Solutions

• Streaks

• Cleavage

• Fracture

When minerals are formed by this kind of process, they formed from materials that WERE NOT part of living things.

• Luster

• Streak

• Cleavage

• Inorganic

The particles of a mineral line up in a pattern that repeats over and over again. The repeating pattern of a mineral's particles forms a solid called a ___________________. These has flat sides called faces that meet at sharp edges and corners.

• Vein

• Crystal

• Fracture

• Solution

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-1

The _________________ of a mineral is the color of its powder.

• luster

• cleavage

• streak

• vein

A naturally occurring solid that can form by inorganic processes and that has a crystal structure and a definite chemical composition.

• Mineral

• Geode

• Crystals

• Fractures

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-1

A rounded, hollow rock that is often lined with mineral crystals.

• Solutions

• Quartz

• Granite

• Geode

The term used to describe how light is reflected from a mineral's surface. (Can be glassy, earthy, silky, waxy, pearly or metallic)

• Luster

• hardness

• crystallization

• inorganic

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS4-2

Mohs Hardness Scale is used to rank

• the veins of minerals

• the hardness of minerals

• the cleavage of minerals

• the texture of minerals

A mineral that splits easily along flat surfaces has the property called __________________.

• Crystals

• Veins

• Cleavage

• Hardness

A narrow channel or slab of a mineral that is different from the surrounding rock.

• A scale of hardness

• A solution

• A vein

• A Geode