Minerals 1

Is it a cleavage or fracture? Look at the photo and write the correct description under the broken mineral crystal shown.

• Fracture
• Cleavage

How can you use density to identify minerals that look very similar?

Name four properties used to identify minerals.

• Hardness, streak, cleavage, density
• Streak, element, lustre, clay
• Soil, Density, liquid, gas
• Fracture, molecule, Cleavage, mud
• Atom, sand, element, soil

Which property of minerals is Mohs Scale used for?

• Density
• Hardness
• Luster
• Streak
• Cleavage

The color of a mineral in powdered form is the mineral's -----------?

• Streak
• Luster
• Cleavage
• Surface area
• Glow

An element is made up of only one kind of --------?

• Atom
• Molecule
• Compound
• Formula
• Matter

A molecule is a particle that is made up of strongly bonded -----------?

• Elements
• Compounds
• Solids
• Atoms
• Liquids

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NGSS.MS-PS1-1

An element is a pure substance that cannot be broken down into simpler substances by ordinary chemical means. True or False?

• False
• True

A substance that is made up of molecules of two or more elements is a ------------?

• Particle
• Solid
• Compound
• Stone
• Liquid

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NGSS.MS-PS1-1

What structure do minerals have and how is their shape defined?