Identifying Minerals

Color

• Changes in color are due to the trace of elements

• Streak

• They form rocks

• Shapes the earths surface

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-2

Luster

• The way a mineral reflects light

• How much the minerals feel

• None

• A solid in which atoms are put together

Streak

• The color of the powder a mineral makes when it’s rubbed across a surface

• None

• Double refraction is a property

• Naturally occurring an inorganic solid

Texture

• Measure of how easily the mineral can be scratched

• How the minerals feels to the touch

• Computers

• All of the above

Hardness

• None

• Special properties

• Reflects the atomic weight and structure

• Measure of how easily the mineral can be scratched

Cleavage and fracture

• None

• Dogs

• When the mineral breaks easily and evenly around the plane within arrangements

• measure of how easily something is

miner uses

• Computers,apple watches, grassroots

• Computers, apple watches,etc

• Bugs

• minerals

Ore

• A mineral that contains a useful substance that can be made for profit

• None of the above

• Meets

• Measure of how easily something is

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

undergr mining

• Pretty gems around the surface

• Food

• Removes ores deep within the crust

• All plants

Open-pit mines

• None

• Removes ores that are near the surface

• Valuable minerals

• Ocean and rivers

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-1