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3. 100 200 400 300 400 Mineral Anything Mineral Characteristics Mineral IDMineral Anything 300 200 400 200 100 500 100

4. The hardest mineral on the Mohs Hardness Scale. Row 1, Col 1 What is diamond?

5. 1,2 A substance that is not alive, never was, and was not made up by once living things. What is inorganic?

6. 1,3 You cannot rely on this alone to I.D. minerals.. What is appearance or color?

7. 1,4 The softest mineral on the Mohs Hardness scale. What is talc?

8. 2,1 Type of crystals that form when magma cools slowly. What are large crystals?

9. 2,2 A repeating pattern of atoms. What are a crystals?

10. 2,3 This is how easily a mineral can be scratched. What is hardness?

11. 2,4 Shines like a metal. What is metallic luster?

12. 3,1 The color of a mineral when it is broken up into a powder. What is streak?

13. 3,2 The reason steel is a nonmineral. What is it not inorganic/man-made?

14. 3,3 Describes how light is reflected from the mineral’s surface. What is luster?

15. 3,4 A mineral has this if it can break across a smooth flat surface.. What is cleavage?

16. 4,1 We use this to identify a minerals hardness. What is the Mohs Scale?

17. 4,2 The reason liquids and/or gases are not considered to be minerals. What is a definite shape?

18. 4,3 Does not shine like a metal. What is nonmetallic?

19. 4,4 The # of minerals there are. What is at least 4000 ?

20. 5,1 The steps you follow when identifying a mineral. What is luster, hardness, streak, density, breakage, special properties, and color/appearance?

21. 5,2 The three ways minerals can form. What is from cooled magma, from a solution, and from already formed minerals put under heat and pressure?

22. 5,3 Minerals that break with rough or jagged edges have this. What is fracture?

23. 5,4 The five characteristics of a mineral. What is naturally occurring, inorganic, solid, definite composition and structure?