Minerals

Hardness:

• It’s the ability of some minerals to break in geometric shapes

• It's the stripe colour of a mineral

• It's a measure of a mineral’s resistance to being scratched

• None of the answers is correct

The way a surface reflects light.

• color
• luster
• streak
• density

Color of a mineral in powdered form.

• hardness
• streak
• breakage
• density

Which mineral property is being shown here?

• luster
• cleavage
• streak
• fracture

If you look at a mineral and decide if it is metallic or nonmetallic, shiny, dull, glassy, how it reflects light -you are looking at its __________.

• luster
• cleavage
• fracture
• streak

A ________ is a naturally occurring, inorganic, solid that can have crystal structure and definite chemical composition. 

• mineral
• rock
• crystal
• fluorite

Inorganic means not made of living things.

• True
• False

Scientists use mineral ________________ to identify and classify minerals.

• pieces

• names

• properties

• structures

Which one is not a property used to identify minerals?

• streak

• luster

• hardness

• size

-the name of the scale used to determine a mineral's hardness.

• Miller's scale of hardness

• The Scale of Hardness

• Mohs scale of hardness

• Mineral Hardness Scale