Mineral Identification
Across
- 3. An inorganic, naturally occurring solid with a specific chemical composition.
- 7. Describes the metallic or nonmetallic way that a mineral reflects light from its surface.
- 8. This mineral has a hardness of 3 with rhombohedral cleavage.
- 10. The luster of galena.
- 11. This mineral has a hardness of 6.5-7.5 and can be dark red.
- 14. This is the softest mineral on page 16.
- 16. This is how many minerals have cleavage according to page 16 of the reference table.
- 17. This mineral can be black or dark green, can scratch fluorite but is scratched by Potassium Feldspar.
Down
- 1. This mineral can be easily scratched by a fingernail, has cleavage, a metallic luster, and has a blacks streak?
- 2. Ability of a mineral to break evenly along one or more flat planes due to its internally arrangement of atoms.
- 4. When a mineral breaks unevenly
- 5. This is the chemical element "F"
- 6. The hardness of quartz.
- 9. This mineral has a hardness of 2.5 and can melt ice.
- 11. This mineral has a hardness of 2.5 and is an ore of lead.
- 12. This mineral has a white-yellow streak.
- 13. The color a mineral leaves after rubbing it on a porcelain plate
- 15. The chemical symbol for this element is "Fe"