Properties
This property is tested by rubbing a mineral against a tile to determine the color of the powder it leaves behind.
What is Streak?
What does it mean if something is formed in nature?
It wasn't made by humans.
If a rock glows under a black light, it has this special property.
What is flourescence?
Na
What is sodium?
If Si can scratch Talc, which mineral has greater hardness?
Silicon
This property is tested by scraping items against a mineral to see what scratches it.
What is hardness?
The characteristic that a mineral is not living and never was living.
What is inorganic?
If a magnet sticks to a rock, it has this special property?
Magnetism
Calcium
What is Ca?
If a mineral can not be scratched by a penny or fingernail or nail, but it does get scratched by glass a what would it's hardness be.
Glass
This property is tested by looking at a rock's edges and noticing they are rough.
This means that the mineral has repeating patterns of elements or atoms?
Crystal Structure
This property can be calculated by dividing the mass of the mineral by it's volume?
What is density?
Magneseum
What is Mg?
Which would be harder, diamonds (mohs 10) or quartz (mohs 7)?
What are diamonds?
This property is tested by looking at a mineral and identifying if it looks metallic or non-metallic.
What is luster?
What does it mean that a mineral has the same type of elements throughout the sample?
Chemical Composition
What is A SPECIAL PROPERTY where the mineral GLOWS or CHANGES COLOR UNDER BLACK LIGHT?
What is silicon?
What is the softest mineral?
What is talc
This property is tested by looking at a mineral's edges and identifying it has broken into smooth layers.
What is cleavage?
What state of matter must a chemical be?
Solid
Magnetite has this special property
Iron
What is Fe?
If Apetite scratches flourite and flourite scratches gypsum, which is the hardest?
What is Apetite?