Minerals and Rocks

What
is
your birthstone?
 Properties of Minerals
Color Streak

• Easy to identify • The color of powder a minerals

• Some minerals have multiple colors leaves behind when you scratch it on
a white tile.

Luster Hardness

• How mineral reflects light • Use scale called the Mohs Hardness
• Is it more dull or glassy? Scale
• How hard or soft a mineral is
• Diamond is the hardest mineral
 Formation of Rocks

Igneous Rocks Sedimentary Rocks Metamorphic Rocks

• Formed from cooled • Formed from tiny • Changed by heat and

and solidified magma pieces of other rocks pressure
or lava and minerals • Limestone  Marble
• Basalt, Granite • Sandstones, limestone Shale  Slate
• Fossils are found in
these rocks
Properties of Minerals

• Color
• Streak
• Luster
• Hardness

Formation of Rocks

• Igneous Rocks
• Sedimentary Rocks
• Metamorphic Rocks