T or F: many minerals have similar colors

Some minerals change color when exposed to _____

______ can change a minerals color

Even though the color of a specimen can vary becuase of its impurities, its ______ is always the same color

T or F: not all minerals produce a streak

The amount and quality of the light that it reflects from its surface is its _______

Glassy or vitreous, pearly, adamantine, silky, greasy, waxy, earthy or dull, and resinous are all categories of _________ luster

T or F: crystals come in many different sizes and shapes

When they have room, crystals build a shape based on the arrangements of _______ in the mineral

Crystals grow larger by _______ , where atoms are added one-by-one to the existing crystal structure.

Each mineral tends to form distinctive crystals with characteristic faces, called ______

Minerals can break either in fractures or cleavage

Perfect, good, fair, poor, or none are the five ratings for

_______ also involves the number of directions in which a mineral breaks

Mineralogists can identify minerals by their hardness. The scale to classify and identify minerals by their hardness is the _____

T or F: talc is a 10 on the Mohs scale

Numbers on MOhs scale show only _______ hardness

The ratio of a minerals density to the density of water at 4degrees C is its ______

The _______ of a substance can be estimated by handling a sample

Mineral reactions to hydrochloride acid produce fizz in this test

Other tests for minerals can include radioactivity, luminescence, and refraction

The physical properties of a mineral include color, streak, luster, crystal shape and growth, cleavage and fracture, hardness, and specific gravity

What is the most reliable way to identify a mineral using color?

What familiar material has an adamantine luster?

What kind of luster should native silver have?

Check all that apply- crystals grow large by accretion which can occur———

Which mineral property describes how will a crystal breaks along certain flat surfaces?

What are five common objects that be used to estimate a minerals hardness?

Process of mineralogy involves getting sample, running tests on the samples, identify physical and chemical properties, and then identify, classify, and analyze them

Which of these options is not one of the physical properties tested to identify a mineral

Platinum (Pt) is a

Quartz (SiO2) is a

Rock that contains both the minerals malachite and azurite is

A rock that is a useful source of iron (Fe)

Calcite (CaCO3) is a

Diamond is a