Mineral Characteristics and Properties

The five characteristics that all minerals share are:

• Definite Chemical Composition, Color, Density, Igneous, and Solid

• Definite Chemical Composition,  Crystal Structure, Inorganic, Naturally Occurring, and Solid

• Cleavage, Faces, Hardness, Metamorphic, and Streak

• Cleavage, Crystal Structure, Density, Igneous, and Solid

How light reflects off of a mineral is called the mineral's 

• luster

• streak

• cleavage

• fracture

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS4-2

To be a mineral, it must be...

• inorganic (not alive or ever been alive)

• A liquid

• Wood

• From outerspace

Which property of minerals can be described as how a mineral reflects light.

• Color

• Luster

• Streak

• Hardness

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS4-2

Which property of minerals can be described as how hard or easy a mineral can be scratched.

• Color

• Luster

• Hardness

• Streak

What mineral property is shown in the picture?

• Fracture

• Streak

• Hardness

• Cleavage

The Moh's scale measures this property of minerals...

• luster

• streak

• hardness

• fracture

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

• hardness

• specific gravity

• luster

• streak

What does the Mohs Scale measure?

• Streak

• Luster

• Hardness

• Cleavage

What mineral is the softest mineral on Moh's Hardness Scale and the main ingredient in baby powder?

• feldspar

• talc

• gypsum

• kaolinite