MOHS Scale practice

MOHS Scale practice

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6th - 8th Grade

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Lynnette Prucnal

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

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Can a penny scratch fluorite?
Yes 
No 

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

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Using this scale, which mineral can scratch fluorite?
Talc 
Gypsum 
Apatite 
Calcite 

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

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Using this scale, which mineral can scratch a Drill bit?
Talc 
Topaz
Corundrum
Quartz

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

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What can scratch Talc?
Gypsum
Diamond
Quartz
All of them

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

A mineral's resistance to being scratched is called?
streak
luster
hardness
heft

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

On Moh’s hardness scale a mineral with a hardness of 6 can scratch___________________.
A mineral with a hardness of 5
A mineral with a hardness of 8
All minerals with a hardness greater than 7
All minerals with a hardness of 6 or less

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What mineral is the softest mineral on Moh's Hardness Scale and the main ingredient in baby powder?
feldspar
talc
gypsum
kaolinite