Unit 3 Quiz Challenge

The 5 characteristics of minerals include; they are solids, non-living, __________, __________, and _____________.

• man made, contain 3 elements, sometimes liquids

• naturally occurring, have a chemical formula, a crystal shape

• multicellular, heterozygous, are crystals

• unicellular, organic, found in nature

Look at the items below click on the ones that are minerals.

• Galena

• Basalt

• Gneiss

• Quartz

• Calcite

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How a mineral reflects light is called

• Hardness

• Streak

• Luster

• Cleavage

Which test was NOT used in class to identify minerals?

• Cleavage

• HCl Test

• Magnetic Test

• Weight Test

• Hardness

How are rocks and minerals related?

Click the boxes of all that are correct.

• Rocks are made up of 2 or more minerals.

• Minerals are part of rocks.

• Two or more rocks make a mineral

• Rocks and minerals are the same.

• Rocks are can be organic and minerals are not.

The process of one rock changing into another is called the

• geologic circle

• rock cycle

• rock round about

• rock genesis

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Igneous rocks that are mafic have minerals that are

• dark colored

• light colored

• intermediate colored

• not colored

What are the steps to make a sedimentary rock?

• Erosion, weathering, compaction, and deposition

• Sediments, deposition, weathering, and erosion

• Heat, pressure, sediments, melting, and magma

• Weathering, sediments, erosion, deposition, and compaction/cementation

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If you have an igneous rock that has light minerals in it then it has a color index called

• felsic

• phaneritic

• mafic

• vesicular

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What are the three types of Sedimentary Rocks?

• Organic

• Foliated

• Intrusive

• Chemical

• Clastic