Properties of minerals

Which one is not a property used to identify minerals?

• streak

• luster

• hardness

• size

-The color of the powder left behind when you rub the mineral against a tile.

• streak

• color

• harness

• luster

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NGSS.MS-PS1-2

• the way a mineral's surface reflects light.

• streak

• luster

• color

• hardness

Gold, silver and copper are examples of minerals that have ______________________ luster.

• metallic

• nonmetallic

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NGSS.MS-PS1-1

Which of the following minerals is one of the hardest minerals?

• pearl

• diamond

• talc

• quartz

A ranking of a minerals from softest to hardest

• streak test
• luster test
• Mohs hardness scale
• fracture

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NGSS.MS-PS1-2

The softest mineral on the Mohs Hardness scale

• Gypsum
• Talc
• Diamond
• Feldspar

Minerals are inorganic which means that

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

A substance composed of a single kind of atom

• element
• compound

When 2 or more elements combine a/an __________ is formed.

• atom
• compound

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NGSS.MS-PS1-1