Properties of Minerals Vocab - Wk 7

a naturally occurring, inorganic solid that has a crystal structure

• streak

• Mineral

• luster

• rocks

can only be used to identify a few minerals

• Color

• luster

• streak

• chin

the color of a mineral’s powder

• minerals

• rocks

• luster

• Streak

how light is reflected from a mineral’s surface

• rocks

• minerals

• Luster

• streak

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS4-2

mass in a given space

• Density

• minerals

• luster

• cleavage

mineral breaks easily along flat surfaces 

• density

• fracture

• luster

• Cleavage

when a mineral breaks apart in an irregular way

• mineral

• Fracture

• cleavage

• density