Classifying Minerals - Mastery Ticket

What is a crystal?

• a pretty gem

• a solid rock that creates minerals

• a solid, geometric form that results from a repeating pattern of atoms or molecules

• idk

what is a mineral?

• idk and i don’t want to know... 🙃

• a natural occurring usually inorganic, solid that has a crystallized structure

• a solid rock that can create crystals with water and time

• a solid organic substance of natural occurrence

The most obvious, but also least useful property when identifying minerals

• Streak
• Luster
• Cleavage
• Color

By definition, a mineral has which of the following characteristic(s)?

• chemical composition
• crystalline structure
• natural
• all of the above

Minerals are inorganic which means that

• they were once parts of living things.
• renewable
• they were never part of anything living.
• they are nonrenewable

Mineral containing silicon, oxygen, and usually one or more other elements

• carbonate
• halide
• silicate
• sulfate

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

A valuable, rare mineral

• ore
• gem
• rock
• bling

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

Mineral mined at a profit

• ore
• luster
• silicate
• rock

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

Breakage along rough or jagged edges

• cleavage
• fracture
• streak
• luster

Minerals can form from other minerals when exposed to 

• heat & pressure
• extreme cold
• high humidity
• salt water