The document provides information to help identify minerals, including terms to describe their properties and descriptions of various minerals to test identification skills over 20 seconds per mineral. Key terms are defined such as metallic, nonmetallic, vitreous, translucent, and opaque. Then 18 different minerals are described based on their properties like color, streak, hardness, crystal formation, and other identifying features to aid in determining the mineral name.

1. Identifying Minerals By Loren Casteel (I really hope this helps.)

3. Here’s how it works. . . See the rainbow-colored dots appearing at the bottom of your screen? There are eight of them in total, and they are your timer. For each slide, you will have twenty seconds to identify your mineral. Write its name on a sheet of your own paper The rainbow dots show you how much time you have left. Ready?

4. GO.

29. Check your answers and review by going to my facebook and looking at my notes. I’ve posted the answers there. 