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List Characteristics That Make the Minerals Different from One Another
1. Color
2. Weight
3. Smell
4. Hardness
5. Size
6. Texture
7. How the mineral reacts with light
8. Breakability
9. Taste
WHAT ARE MINERALS?
THE FIVE REQUIREMENTS FOR MINERALS?
Solids- definite
shape and volume
Natural- Formed in
earth’s crust
Definite structureatoms arranged in
“orderly pattern”
MINERALS
(Compounds)
Definite chemical
composition
“Crystal Shape”
Inorganic- note made from
living matter
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