Characteristics of Minerals
Identifying Properties of Minerals
How Minerals Form
Special Properties
of Minerals
Mystery Mix
100
All minerals form in _______________.
What is nature?
100
The color of the powder left behind when a mineral is scraped across a surface.
What is streak?
100
Water at Earth’s surface ____________leaving behind minerals that had been dissolved in it.
What is evaporates?
100
Carbonate minerals form tiny bubbles.
What is reaction with acid?
100
The amount of mass in the given volume of the substance. (d/v)
What is density?
200
Minerals must be a (solid or liquid).
What is a solid?
200
The way light reflects from a mineral’s surface.
What is luster?
200
Hot water within Earth’s crust cools, allowing dissolved minerals to __________.
What is re-form?
200
This mineral strongly attracts magnets.
What is magnetite?
200
Molten rock inside Earth
What is magma?
300
Minerals have a definite _____________ makeup.
What is chemical?
300
The tendency of a crystal to break into irregular pieces.
What is fracture?
300
As molten rock cools, new atoms joins together to create new_____________.
What are minerals?
300
Minerals that glow when exposed to ultraviolet light.
What are fluorescence?
300
Molten rock that reaches Earth’s surface
What is lava?
400
Minerals must have a ______________ structure.
What is crystal?
400
A mineral’s resistance to being scratched.
What is hardness?
400
Heat and/or _______________causes minerals to change.
What is pressure?
400
Unstable elements that change into other elements over time while releasing energy.
What is radioactivity?
400
Rocks that contain enough of a valuable mineral to be mined for profit.
What are ores?
500
Diamonds and graphite are both made of the element carbon, but are different minerals because they have a different ______________ structure.
What is crystal?
500
The tendency of a crystal to break along flat surfaces.
What is cleavage?
500
Organisms produce minerals to form ______ or ________.
What are shells or bones?
500
The scale used to describe a minerals hardness.
What is Mohs?
500
The scale used to describe a minerals hardness.
What is Mohs?
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