Mineral Basic Properties of Minerals
How many properties should you have in order for the rock or object to be considered a mineral?
a. 3
b. 7
c. 5
d. 2
5
luster is
a.reflection of light
b.hardness
c.reaction to acid
reflection of light
What is the least effective test to help determine what a mineral is?
a. Density
b. Color
c. Shape
d. Streak
b. Color
What is the formula for density?
a. Mass divided by volume
b. Volume divided by mass
c. Mass times volume
d. Volume times mass
Mass divided by volume
Which practice uses a triple beam balance
A. Mass
B. Density
C. Volume
D. Streak
Density
Which property is one of the 5 basic properties of a mineral?
A. Hardness
B. Man made
C. Liquid
D.Inorganic
INORGANIC
what mineral test requires you to scratch the mineral on a ceramic tile?
a. hardness
B.streak
c. luster
d. reaction to acid
STREAK
If a mineral had a mass of 10, and a volume of 2, what is the density
5
What is the proper order of the units for density?
A. GmL
B. mLg
C. g/mL
D. mL/g
g/mL
What mineral property is qualitative?
Density
Color
Hardness
COLOR
What is the acronym we use to remember the basic characteristics minerals have in common?
SINCC
How do you find the streak
SCRAP THE MINERAL ACROSS A STEEL PLATE AND SEE IT IN POWDERED FORM
Which of the following properties can you test without any tools or extra materials?
1. Hardness
2. Density
3. Acid
4.Luster
Luster
What is the density of a mineral with a mass of 40 and a volume of 5?
A. 8g/mL
B. 4.7g/mL
C. 6g/mL
D. 9.3g/mL
8g/mL
Why is flowing water not a mineral?
A. It's man-made
B. It's not naturally occurring
C. Its the wrong color
D. It's not a solid
It's not a solid
What is the name of the basic characteristic that means not from living things?
Inorganic
What test requires a dark space?
Fluorescence (the UV Test)
What is the lowest mineral on the Moh scale?
A-diamond
B- Sulfur
C- Talc
D- Granite
Talc
What is the name of the tube-like piece of science equipment we used to find the volume in our density test?
Graduated Cylinder
What is the definition of Mass?
A.The amount of space an object takes up
B. the amount of matter in an object
C.What M/V equals
The amount of matter in an object
What are the five basic properties of minerals?
crystal structure, inorganic, solid, naturally occurring, and specific atomic arrangement
What is being referred to when the "shape" test is being done? The shape of what?
crystals
A mineral with a hardness of 8 is given the streak test. There is no streak, why is this the case?
Minerals over 6.5 don't leave a streak on a streak plate because they are harder than the streak plate.
If two minerals are compared and sample A has a higher density than sample B, but there are equal volumes of each one, what would be true?
The mass of A would be greater than the mass of B.
The mass of B would be greater than the mass of A.
The mass of A and B would be the same.
It is impossible to predict anything about their masses.
The mass of A would be greater than the mass of B.
What are the two basic categories of breakage?
fracture and cleavage