Science study guide

What type of mineral properties Is this one?

Like all objects in our world, when light shines on a mineral some colors bounce off the mineral and other colors are absorbed by the mineral. Our eyes see the color that is bounced off or reflected. Many minerals share the same color so you will have to observe more than just this property in order to identify a mineral.

What type of mineral properties is this one?

Describes how easily it can be scratched. A mineral is considered harder than another mineral if it can scratch that mineral.

What type of mineral properties is this one?

Describes how a light reflects from a mineral's surface. For example, a mineral can have a metallic, glassy, pearly, dull, or earthy luster.

What type of mineral properties is this one?

Describes the color of the powder the mineral leaves behind when it is rubbed on a streak plate (porcelain tile).

What type of properties is this one?

Describes how a mineral breaks apart along smooth surfaces. If it breaks along a smooth, flat surface, the mineral has cleavage. If it is jagged when broken, it fractures.

Which tutor of rock is formed when melted rock, known as magma (lava),cools. It can cool on Earth's surface or below.

slate, schist, marble, gneiss

Are examples of what type of rock?

Which rock forms on Earth's surface when rock is weathered, layered, and cemented together naturally by water?

Is it erosion or weathering?

Ice expanding in cracks of a rock.

Is it erosion or weathering?

Wind blowing sand to form a dune.