Minerals

A mineral is a _______________, naturally occuring solid that has its own regular arrangement of particles in it.

• Living

• Nonliving

• Rock

• Small

What properties are used to identify minerals?

• Hardness, Luster, Color, Streak, Shape, Magnetism

• Diamond, Crystal, Topaz, Quartz, Apatite, Calcite

• Hardness, Luster, Color, Topaz, Talc, Fluorite

The hardest mineral is the ______________.

• Diamond

• Corundum

• Topaz

• Calcite

____________ describes how a mineral's surface reflects light.

• Hardness 

• Luster

• Color

• Streak

________________ is the color of a mineral in its powdered form.

• Streak

• Shape

• Magnetism

• Luster

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

A ranking of a minerals from softest to hardest

• streak test

• luster test

• Mohs hardness scale

• fracture

Minerals are the building blocks of _____________.

• elements

• atoms

• fossils

• rocks

Minerals are inorganic which means that

• they were once parts of living things.

• renewable

• they were never part of anything living.

• they are nonrenewable