Across
- 5. A naturally occurring, inorganic solid
- 7. Table salt is a ___
- 10. Not organic
- 11. The sheets of the silica tetrahedron
- 14. Color; the way light reflects off of a mineral
- 16. Some ___ include iridescence, magnetism, fluorescence, etc. (two words, no spaces)
- 17. ___ are compounds of oxygen and metal
- 18. The formula for ___ is SiO₂
- 19. A mineral that can split relatively easily. It splits evenly across a plane
- 20. ___ scale of hardness
Down
- 1. If a mineral breaks evenly it has a ___
- 2. A solid in which the atoms are arranged in patterns
- 3. See back page
- 4. A valuable substance sold for a profit
- 6. How easily a mineral can be scratched
- 8. Minerals that are made up of at least oxygen and silicon
- 9. One noticeable characteristic of a mineral is its ___
- 12. ___ is the color of a mineral when in a powdered form
- 13. Sometimes, different minerals of the same size have a different ___
- 15. A geometric solid containing 4 sides with equilateral triangles