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Explain how can you decide whether a substance you found is a mineral or not.

It needs to be solid with crystalline structure/ inoganic / naturally formed / has specific chemicl composition.

The marks that minerals leave when scratched on a porcelain plate are defined as :

Streak

List 3 ways by which minerals form.

1. As magma and lava cools/ 2. By metamorphosis / 3. From solutions

................. of a mineral can be metallic or nonmetallic

Luster

When a mineral breaks unevenly or scattered we say it is ......................

fractured.

Compare and contrast between graphite and diamond.

Both of graphite and diamond are made up of carbon atoms but with different arrangement.

What property determines how easy it is to scratch a mineral?

Hardness

..................... is used to describe minerals but it is not the best way, because it might change under certain conditions.

Color

............... describes when a mineral breaks along a plane or uniform shape.

Cleavage

Looking at the minerals formed inside and outside the volcano, compare the size of their crystals.

Minerals formed inside a volcano have bigger sized crystals than those formed outside the volcano.