Minerals Characteristics
Mineral Properties
Mineral Groups
Mineral Hardness
Examples of Minerals
100
Minerals must be in this state of matter, often referred to as having a definite volume and shape
What is a solid
100
The color of the powder of a mineral.
What is streak?
100
These minerals are shiny, reflect light well, and contain metal elements.
What are metallic minerals?
100
This scale goes from 1 to 10 and describes a mineral's resistance to scratching.
What is Moh's Hardness Scale?
100
This mineral has a distinct smell (rotten eggs and gunpowder) and taste.
What is sulfur?
200
All minerals come from material that is not or never was alive.
What is inorganic?
200
The way a surface appears and reflects light... "Metallic" and "nonmetallic" to describe this property.
What is luster?
200
These minerals are dull and do not reflect light well.
What are nonmetallic minerals?
200
This mineral has a hardness of 10 and can scratch all other minerals.
What are diamonds?
200
This hard, yellow mineral is often referred to as "fool's gold".
What is pyrite.
300
All minerals have this kind of structure.
What are regular, repeating, and crystal?
300
This is the white, rough, porcelain tile minerals are scraped along to produce a powder color.
What is a streak plate?
300
This is the element minerals must have to be considered as oxides.
What is oxygen?
300
The softest mineral on Mohs Hardness Scale, with a hardness of 1. It is often the main ingredient in baby powder.
What is Talc?
300
This mineral is often mistaken for lead, in a pencil.
What is graphite?
400
This property of minerals is that they are not man-made.
What is naturally occurring?
400
The tendency of some minerals to break along smooth, flat surfaces because of weak bonds between the layers.
What is cleavage
400
This group of minerals contains unbonded, raw elements, such as sulfur, carbon, gold, and silver.
What are the native elements?
400
This mineral can scratch fluorite, calcite, gypsum, and talc.
What is apatite?
400
This mineral is used in glass and electronics and occurs naturally as sand.
What is Quartz?
500
This characteristic of minerals is that they do not vary in which elements in them.
What is the same, predictable, chemical composition?
500
The ratio of mass to volume of a substance.
What is density?
500
A silicate mineral must contain these two elements.
What are silicon and oxygen?
500
This mineral will scratch apatite but be scratched by Quartz.
What is feldspar?
500
This reaction occurs as calcite is exposed to Hydrochloric Acid (HCl).
What is bubbling and fizzing?