What are minerals?

The least effective way to identify minerals

• hardness

• streak

• color

• cleavage

The streak is often different from the mineral's color

• true

• false

What characteristic means that a mineral is made up of substances that are NOT living or materials that were once living

• crystalline substance

• naturally occurring

• chemical composition

• inorganic

Minerals are formed two ways, water evaporation and magma underground

• true

• false

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Copper, salt, silver, mica, cobalt, zinc, graphite, gold and quartz are all examples of...

• magnets

• crystals

• minerals

• gasses

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How light is reflected from a minerals source

• luster

• fracture

• color

• crystal shape

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Are minerals a renewable resource?

• yes - because it's easy to replace them

• no - because they take a long time to replace

As molten magma cools and crystalizes, underground minerals will form in the rock

• true

• false

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What characteristic of a mineral is why it must have a definite shape and definite volume

• solid

• crystalline substance

• chemical composition

• inorganic

Minerals are the building blocks of rocks

• true

• false