Minerals, Rocks, and Rock Cycle

Question 0

Luster

Answer 0

How shiny a material is

Question 1

Minerals

Answer 1

Non-living materials that are found naturally on Earth

Question 2

Dull Luster

Answer 2

Doesn’t reflect any light, and isn’t shiny

Question 3

Glassy Luster

Answer 3

Reflects some light, and is only somewhat shiny

Question 4

Brilliant Luster

Answer 4

Reflects lots of light, and is very shiny

Question 5

Transparency

Answer 5

The proportion of the light that is passed through an object

Question 6

Opaque Transparency

Answer 6

Not able to see through

Question 7

Translucent Transparency

Answer 7

Can see through, but vision is blurry

Question 8

Transparent Transparency

Answer 8

Can see through clearly

Question 9

Color

Answer 9

The quality of an object or substance with respect to the light reflected by the object

Question 10

Streak Color Method

Answer 10

Scrape a liberal against a white ceramic plate to see its true color

Question 11

Hardness Method

Answer 11

Scratch two different minerals together the one that gets scratched is softer than the other mineral

Question 12

Moh’s Hardness Scale

Answer 12

Talc-1, gypsum-2, calcite-3, fluorite-4, aptite-5, orthoclase-6, quartz-7,
topaz-8, corundum-9, diamond-10

Question 13

Crystalline Structure

Answer 13

A specific set of atoms arranged in a repeating pattern

Question 14

Cleavage

Answer 14

The way a mineral usually breaks