Is it a Mineral?
Luster
Streak
Cleavage/Fracture
What Mineral am I?
100
This is another way of saying that something is non-living!
What is inorganic?
100
This is the way a surface reflects light.
What is luster?
100
This is the color of a mineral in powdered form.
What is streak?
100
Different minerals break in this many ways.
What is two?
100
I am the softest mineral on the hardness scale. I have a hardness of 1.
What is Talc?
200
This is a substance made of two or more elements chemically joined together.
What is a compound?
200
If a mineral reflects a lot of light it is categorized as this.
What is metallic?
200
This is a piece of unglazed porcelain that can be used to determine a mineral's streak.
What is a streak plate?
200
The way a mineral breaks is determined by the arrangement of its this.
What are atoms?
200
I am the hardest mineral on the hardness scale. I have a hardness of 10.
What is diamond?
300
This is a solid whose atoms are arranged in a definite pattern.
What is a crystal?
300
A mineral that reflects a little bit of light, but cannot be considered metallic is this.
What is submetallic?
300
The streak a mineral leaves does not have to match this aspect of the mineral.
What is color?
300
If a mineral breaks along smooth, flat surfaces it has this.
What is cleavage?
300
I am metallic with a gold color and a black streak. I am sometimes mistaken as gold.
What is Pyrite?
400
A mineral that does NOT contain compounds of oxygen and silicon.
What is a nonsilicate mineral?
400
A mineral that does not reflect any light is this.
What is nonmetallic?
400
This characteristic/test is more reliable than color because of this.
What is a mineral's streak is not affected by air or water?
400
If a mineral breaks along unevenly curved or irregular surfaces, it has this.
What is fracture?
400
I am nonmetallic with a yellow color and I have fracture.
What is Sulfur?
500
These are the four things that an object has to have to be a mineral. (SNIC)
What is it has to be solid, natural, inorganic, and a crystalline structure?
500
If a mineral is nonmetallic, it can be described as any of these adjectives.
What is glassy, brilliant, silky, resinous, waxy, greasy, oily, pearly, creamy, earthy, rough, or dull.
500
The mineral's streak is always specific to this.
What is the type of mineral.
500
One of these two minerals that we have looked at has cleavage.
What is halite or mica?
500
I have fracture with a white streak, a hardness of 7, and come in a variety of colors from white to pink to gray.
What is quartz?
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