WorksheetsMinerals
Total questions: 17
Worksheet time: 9mins
Minerals are a component of _________________.
Stones
DIamonds
Rocks
Solids
Tiny pieces of minerals found in rock are called
Homogenous
Mineral grains
Solids
Streaks
Minerals are solid, _______________ substances
Homogeneous
Cleavage
Mineral grain
Shiny
Homogeneous definition: ______________
Things that are solid
Things that are hot
Things that are made up of only one thing
Things that are shiny
What is the hardest of all minerals?
Quartz
topaz
Corondum
Diamond
What do you use to figure out to hardness on a mineral?
Mineral scale
MOH'S scale
Science testing lab
MOH'S mineral website
What are the 5 properties you look for in a mineral?
Color, chalk, touch, fractions, rocks
steak, luster, softness, color, shape
Luster, Hardness, Streak, Color, cleavage
Salt, concrete, color, length, density
What is luster?
The way a mineral reflects light
How hard it is
The color and appearance
The way a mineral breaks
The color of the mineral in powdered form
What is streak?
The way a mineral reflects light
How hard it is
The color and appearance
the way a mineral breaks
The color of the mineral in powdered form
What is cleavage?
The way a mineral reflects light
How hard it is
The color of the mineral in powdered form
color and appearance
the way a mineral breaks
What is color?
The way a mineral reflects light
how hard it is
the color and appearance
the way a mineral breaks
the color and appearance of the mineral in powdered form
What is hardness?
The way a mineral reflects light
How hard it is
the color and appearance of the mineral in powdered form
color and appearance
the way a mineral breaks
Solid means... (Select all that apply)
Cannot be liquid
Cannot be gas
has to be 3D
mineral
Naturally occurring means...
Cannot be liquid or gas
does not contain any type of organic material
formed inside or outside the Earth with ZERO input from humans
the color and appearance of the mineral in powdered form
Inorganic means…
Cannot he liquid or gas
Is not made from any type of organic material
The atoms that make up the mineral are arranged the exact way in every sample of that mineral
Made of the same material throughout the entire sample
Fixed atom structure is..
the atoms that make up the mineral are arranged the exact way in every sample or that mineral
Not made of organic material
The color of the mineral in powdered form
Other…
Fixed chemical composition is…
The atoms that make up the mineral are arranged in the exact way in every sample of that mineral
Made up of the same material are arranged throughout the entire sample
