Matching
describes how a mineral feels to the touch.
What is Texture?
a measure of how easily a mineral can be scratched.
What is Hardness?
Four characteristics of minerals:
one of the most noticeable characteristics of minerals.
What is color?
the way that a mineral reflects light from its surface.
What is Luster?
Three of the most common minerals
the color of a mineral when it is broken up and powdered.
What is Streak?
minerals that form from the evaporation of the liquid in which they were dissolved.
What are Evaporites?
What size crystals form from rapidly cooling magma?
Small crystals
minerals that break with rough, arclike, or jagged edges because of their tightly bonded atoms.
What is Fracture?
molten material that forms and accumulates below Earth’s surface.
What is Magma?
What size crystals form from slowly cooling magma?
Large Crystals
a mineral that splits relatively easily and evenly along one or more planes of weak atomic bonds.
What is Cleavage?
solid in which the atoms are arranged in repeating patterns.
What are Crystals?
What are two types of luster?