Rock and Mineral Quiz

What is a nonliving solid material that has a definite chemical makeup?

• mineral

• rock

• fossil

• sediment

What is the way a mineral shines or reflects light?

• streak

• luster

• hardness

• cleavage

What is the color of a mineral when it is ground to a powder?

• hardness

• luster

• streak

• cleavage

What is the measure of how easily a mineral can be scratched?

• cleavage

• luster

• streak

• hardness

What is the tendency of a mineral to split easily along flat surfaces?

• cleavage

• luster

• hardness

• streak

Which type of rock is made when melted rock cools and hardens?

• sedimentary

• metamorphic

• igneous

• crust

Which type of rock is made when sand, particles of rock, bits of soil, and remains of once-living things are pressed together?

• sedimentary

• metamorphic

• igneous

• mantle

Which type of rock is made when rocks are changed by heat and pressure?

• sedimentary

• metamorphic

• igneous

• core

What is the continuous series of changes that rocks undergo?

• rock band

• rock diagram

• rock cycle

• rock chart

A solid in which the atoms are arranged in repeating patterns.

• crystal

• rock

• water

• lava