Minerals

How a mineral reflects light from its surface

• crystal
• luster
• streak
• refraction

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS4-2

The property of splitting easily along flat surfaces

• fracture
• hardness
• cleavage
• streak

How a mineral splits apart when it does not break evenly:

• streak
• hardness
• cleavage
• fracture

The color of a minerals powder

• luster
• streak
• hardness
• texture

A ranking of a minerals from softest to hardest

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

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

The hardest mineral on the Mohs Hardness scale

• Talc
• Obsidian
• Diamond
• Quartz

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

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 color of a mineral in powder form is called the mineral's 

• hardness
• specific gravity
• luster
• streak