Rocks and Minerals 100 questions

What is the name of the mineral that leaves a white streak when scraped across a surface and is used to make powder.

• graphite
• talk
• gold
• fingernail

What type of rock would you most likely find a fossil inside of?

• sedimentary
• igneous
• metamorphic
• diamond

What type of rock is formed when magma and lava cools and hardens?

• minerals
• sedimentary
• igneous
• metamorphic

• Gold
• Hematite
• Pyrite
• Galena

• luster
• streak
• scratch
• hardness

• Yellow
• Gray
• Brassy Yellow
• Brassy Gray

• Gold
• Hematite
• Pyrite
• Galena

• Fluorite
• Talk and Calcite
• Talc
• none of the above

• Talc
• Gypsum
• Fluorite
• Talc and Gypsum

Emily was looking at a rock and saw tiny crystals.  Emily should know that all rocks are made up of _____.

• diamonds
• minerals
• fossils
• dirt