Science Finals Study

Which one of these is not a way to identify a mineral?

• Streak

• Luster

• Color Under Water

• Hardness

How do you conduct a streak test?

• You observe the color of the surface under light

• You scratch the mineral on a plate and observe the color of the scratch

• Observe the color of a mineral when it is underwater.

• You scratch the mineral on different objects and put the mineral on Mohs Scale

List 5 characteristics of a mineral

• Form Naturally, inorganic, solid, crystal structure, chemical composition

• Reacts with acid, forms naturally, inorganic, solid, crystal structure

• Luster, Hardness, color, streak, density

• Luster, hardness, color, streak, solid

Which one has a crystal structure?

• A

• B

• Neither

• Both

What is luster?

• How a mineral looks underwater

• What color the mineral is

• What color a mineral is under light

• How much density the object has

What are two ways that crystals form?

• Cooling Molten Rock

• Solidifying from evaporation of water

• Arrangement of atoms in a repeating pattern.

• When minerals breaks in a smooth flat pattern

The outer core is made out of which of the following materials?

• Flowing Rock

• Solid Rock

• Liquid iron and Nickle

• Solid Iron and Nickle

Scientists belive that the deeper into the geosphere ________.

• Temperature and Pressure Decrease

• Pressure increases and Temperature decreases

• Pressure and Temperature Increases

• It stays the same

What two layers make-up the Earth's Lithosphere?

• Upper Mantle and asthenosphere

• Crust and the Uppermost Mantle

• Crust and Lower Mantle

• Does not exist

List the layers of the earth from outer to inner

• Crust, Outer core, Inner core, mantle

• crust, mantle, outer core, inner core

• crust, mantle, inner core, outer core

• Inner core, outer core, mantle, crust