Surface Processes and Earth Materials Review

Which mineral can be found in all samples of rhyolite and andesite?

• Pyroxene
• Quartz
• Biotite
• Potassium feldspar

What is the origin and rate of formation of this rock?

• Plutonic with slow cooling
• Plutonic with rapid cooling
• Volcanic with slow cooling
• Volcanic with rapid cooling

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

The way a mineral reflects light is called

• Hardness
• Luster
• Streak
• Cleavage

Which sequence correctly matches each test, A, B, and C, with the mineral property tested?

• A–cleavage; B–streak; C–hardness
• A–cleavage; B–hardness; C–streak
• A–streak; B–cleavage; C–hardness
• A–streak; B–hardness; C–cleavage

This rock is composed of cemented pebbles and sand.  This rock should be classified as 

• an intrusive igneous rock
• an extrusive igneous rock
• a clastic sedimentary rock
• a bioclastic sedimentary rock

Mineral A is most likely

• garnet

• galena

• olivine

• halite

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-1

NGSS.MS-PS1-2

Which relative concentration of elements is found in a mafic rock?

• a high concentration of silica and a low concentration of iron

• a high concentration of iron and a low concentration of potassium

• a high concentration of sodium and a low concentration of magnesium

• a high concentration of silica and a low concentration of magnesium

Tags

NGSS.HS-PS1-1

Which rock sample is most likely a foliated metamorphic rock?

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Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

Which table shows the rocks correctly classified by texture?

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Photographs A and B show two different valleys. Which list best identifies the agent of erosion that primarily determined the shape of each valley?

• photograph A - glacier; photograph B - river

• photograph A - river; photograph B - glacier

• both photographs - river

• both photographs - glacier

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2