Rocks and Minerals

Rocks and Minerals

8th - 9th Grade

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42 Qs

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Rocks and Minerals

Rocks and Minerals

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

A mineral is a....

solid,naturally occurring,inorganic with definite properties

olid,naturally occurring,organic with indefinite properties

solid, unnatural,organic with indefinite properties

solid,naturally occurring,organic with definite properties

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which mineral property should you never use to identify a mineral alone?

luster

fracture

color

streak

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Streak is...

the color of a mineral

the color of the powered form of the mineral

solid form of the mineral

when you break the mineral into pieces

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

How do minerals get their characteristics? (choose the best answer)

by how it forms

color

streak

alignment of the atoms within the mineral

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Certain minerals break along flat surfaces, while other minerals break unevenly.This is because

force with which the mineral is broken

luster of the mineral

age of the mineral

internal arrangement of the mineral's atoms i

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which property is most useful in mineral identification?

color

hardness

size

texture

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which mineral has a nonmetallic luster, fracture, hardness of 6.5 and is dark red to green?

olivine

quartz

sulfur

garnet

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