1. 2 pt 3 pt 4 pt 5 pt 1 pt 2 pt 3 pt 4 pt 5 pt 1 pt 2 pt 3 pt 4 pt 5 pt 1 pt 2 pt 3 pt 4 pt 5 pt 1 pt 2 pt 3 pt 4 pt 5 pt 1 pt Minerals Physical Properties Mohs Scale Special Properties Seismic Waves

2. A naturally formed, inorganic solid that has a crystal structure

3. What is a mineral?

4. The six physical properties of minerals

5. What are luster, cleavage, fracture, streak, density, and hardness?

6. The structure of a mineral

7. What is crystaline?

8. Scale that indicates a mineral’s resistance to scratching

9. What is Moh’s Scale?

10. One of the 92 smallest parts of a mineral that cannot be broken down into a purer substance

11. What is an element?

12. The ability of a mineral to resist scratching

13. What is hardness?

14. The way a mineral reflects light

15. What is luster?

16. The splitting of a mineral along smooth flat surfaces

17. What is cleavage?

18. The color of the powder of a mineral

19. What is streak?

20. The manner in which a mineral breaks along either a curved or irregular surface

21. What is fracture?

22. The ratio of the mass of a substance to the volume of the substance

23. What is density?

24. The number on the Moh’s scale for Talc

25. What is one?

26. The number on the Moh’s scale for a diamond

27. What is ten?

28. A mineral with a hardness greater than quartz (7) and less than a diamond would have this hardness

29. What is 8 or 9?

30. The hardness of a mineral that could not scratch or be scratched by Talc

31. What is 1?

32. A mineral that glows under ultra violet light is said to have this property.

33. What is fluorescence?

34. A mineral that fizzes or bubbles when a weak acid is placed on the mineral.

35. What is chemical reaction?

36. A mineral that causes an image to double

37. What are optical properties?

38. A mineral that attracts iron

39. What is magnetism?

40. A mineral that contains radium or uranium

41. What is radioactivity?

42. The last seismic waves to arrive and are most destructive

43. What are surface waves?

44. The fastest seismic waves. Arrive first and can move through solids, liquids and gases

45. What are P waves?

46. Seismic waves are the second to arrive and cannot move through liquids

47. What are S waves?

48. The place on the Earth that does not receive seismic waves

49. What is the Shadow zone?

50. The place between the crust and the mantle that causes seismic waves to increase in speed.

51. What is the Moho Zone?