Minerals or rocks

Minerals are

• Things we eat

• Natural, nonliving solid crystals that make up rocks

• the same thing as a rock

• I dont know

How many minerals are there on Earth

• 1

• 500

• more than 4,000

• 16

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What are rock minerals?

• A small amount of minerals that make up most rocks

• shiny rocks

• big rocks

• Rocks we find only in the dirt

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How can we tell minerals apart?

• By looking

• By smelling

• By testing there properties

• By just the color

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What are some properties we can use to identify properties of a mineral?

• color, luster

• taste, cleavage

• size, color

• steak, size

Can color alone identify a mineral?

• yes

• sometimes

• no

• Im not sure

What is luster?

• The way a mineral reflects the light

• the way the mineral looks in color

• the way the mineral looks under water

• the way the mineral looks in the dark

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How can we tell the hardness of a mineral?

• How easily it breaks?

• How easily it can be scratched

• The color of it

• The luster of it

Streak is

• the color of the powder a mineral leaves on a special plate

• the line it makes on paper

• the hardness of the mineral

• the color of the mineral

Each mineral has

• a streak

• luster

• smell

• crystals