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Minerals of Earth’s Crust

You can identify minerals by the luster or way the fracturecolorlightplateSelect your answer bounces off their surfaces. Shiny minerals have a(n) fracturemetalliccleavagecolorSelect your answerluster. Another way to tell minerals apart is by observing colorcleavagelightscratchingSelect your answer on a fresh surface. You tell gold from pyrite by using a streak colorplatemetallicdiamondSelect your answer. Hardness, or how well a mineral resists metalliccolorscratchinglightSelect your answer, is measured by Moh’s scale. The hardest mineral is a(n) fracturediamondcleavagemetallicSelect your answer. If a mineral has colorcleavagelightfractureSelect your answer, it will break along flat surfaces. If it has fracturecleavagemetallicscratchingSelect your answer, it wouldn’t break smoothly.