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Mineral
Properties
Identifying
Minerals
Rock Cycle
Minerals
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A measure of how
easily a mineral
can be scratched.
What is hardness?
The tendency of a
mineral to split
easily along flat
surfaces.
What is cleavage?
The way a
mineral shines.
What is luster?
The color of a
mineral when it is
ground to a
powder.
What is streak?
A mineral’s streak
is not always the
same as its
_____________.
What is color?
The two words to
tell if a mineral
shines or not.
What are metallic
and non-metallic?
When identifying a
mineral that can be
scratched with a
fingernail, you are
testing for this.
What is hardness?
If you scratch a
mineral and it has
powder, it has this.
What is streak?
If the mineral splits
easily along flat
surfaces, it has this.
What is cleavage?
the scale used to
determine a
mineral’s hardness
What is Mohs
Hardness Scale?
This type of rock is
formed when molten
rock from deep
below the Earth’s
surface cools and
hardens.
What is igneous?
This type of rock forms
when sand particles of
rock, bits of soil and
remains of once living
things are pressed
together and hardened.
What sedimentary
rock?
This type of rock is new
rock that forms when
existing rocks are
changed by heat,
pressure, or chemicals
beneath Earth’s
surface.
What is
metamorphic?
Igneous,
sedimentary, and
metamorphic rock
can whether into
this.
What is sediment?
These forces can
change a rock to a
metamorphic rock.
What are heat,
pressure, and
chemicals?
On the hardness
scale, this mineral
is the hardest.
What is a
diamond?
This is one of the
softest minerals on
the hardness scale.
What is talc?
If you put an acid
on this mineral, it
bubbles.
What is calcite?
This mineral is also
known as fool’s gold.
What is pyrite?
This cloudy white
mineral is harder
than steel but softer
than a diamond.
What is quartz?
A solid material
made up of one or
more minerals.
What is a rock?
A nonliving solid
material that has a
definite chemical
make up.
What is a mineral?
Pieces of rock that
have been broken
by weathering.
What is sediment?
the continuous
series of changes
that rocks undergo
What is the rock
cycle?
A mineral that is
shiny like metal
can be described as
this.
What is metallic?
Make your wager
List in order the four
layers that make up the
Earth.
What are the crust,
mantle, outer core,
and inner core?