Mineral Formation

Multiple Choice

Minerals must be _______  by processes that occur in the _______ world

• formed; natural

• inorganic; pattern

• formed; definite

• volume; natural

Multiple Choice

Minerals must be ______ meaning that it cannot come from materials that were once part of a ________ thing.

• definite; shape

• living; natural

• inorganic; living

• inorganic; natural

Multiple Choice

Minerals must be A solid - with definite _______ and definite _________.

• living; definite

• pattern; shape

• inorganic; pattern

• shape; volume

Multiple Choice

Minerals must have particles that make it line up in a repeating _______ which form a crystal.

• inorganic

• pattern

• shape

• volume

Multiple Choice

Minerals must have a________ chemical composition or range of compositions.

• definite

• natural

• living

• formed

Multiple Choice

Used to identify a few minerals that have their own characteristic coloring

• fracture

• luster

• color

• streak

Multiple Choice

Color of a mineral's powder

• luster

• color

• cleavage

• streak

Multiple Choice

How light is reflected from a mineral's surface

• luster

• color

• density

• streak

Multiple Choice

each mineral has a characteristic this (d=m/v)

• cleavage

• fracture

• density

• streak

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If a mineral breaks easily along flat surfaces

• streak

• fracture

• density

• cleavage

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When a mineral breaks apart in an irregular way

• cleavage

• streak

• fracture

• luster

Multiple Choice

Hardest known mineral

• Talc

• Crystallization

• Geode

• Diamond

Multiple Choice

Softest known mineral

• Talc

• Crystallization

• Geode

• Diamond

Multiple Choice

Rounded hollow rock that is often lined with mineral crystals

• Talc

• Crystallization

• Geode

• Diamond

Multiple Choice

Process by which atoms are arranged to form a material with a crystal structure

• Talc

• Crystallization

• Geode

• Diamond

Multiple Choice

Created when magma or lava cools and crystallizes

• metamorphic rock

• sedimentary rock

• igneous rock

• rock cycle

Multiple Choice

Rock material that forms where rocks are broken down into smaller pieces or dissolved in water

• metamorphic rock

• sedimentary rock

• igneous rock

• rock cycle

Multiple Choice

_______ forms when existing rock is changed by heat, pressure or chemical reactions

• metamorphic rock

• sedimentary rock

• igneous rock

• rock cycle

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___  series of processes that change one type

of rock into another type of rock

• metamorphic rock

• sedimentary rock

• igneous rock

• rock cycle

Multiple Choice

___  the look and feel of the rock's surface

• texture

• color

• granite

• basalt