Minerals

How do you test the hardness of a mineral? 

• Throw it against a wall
• Step on it
• Scratch Test
• Kick it until it breaks

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

• streak
• hardness
• cleavage
• fracture

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

• luster
• streak
• cleavage
• fracture

What mineral is salt?

• quartz
• sulfur
• halite
• calcite

A mineral's resistance to being scratched is called?

• streak
• luster
• hardness
• heft

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

• hardness
• specific gravity
• luster
• streak

By definition, a mineral has which of the following characteristic(s)?

• definite chemical composition
• crystal structure
• naturally occuring
• all of the above

The color of a minerals powder

• luster
• streak
• hardness
• texture

The hardest mineral on the Mohs Hardness scale

• Talc
• Obsidian
• Diamond
• Quartz

A ranking of a minerals from softest to hardest

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