Warm up Questions: Minerals

Warm up Questions: Minerals

6th Grade

9 Qs

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Warm up Questions: Minerals

Warm up Questions: Minerals

Assessment

Quiz

Science

6th Grade

Medium

NGSS
MS-ESS2-1

Standards-aligned

Created by

KAITLYN DIXON

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9 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What are the two main types of luster?

Metallic and nonmetallic

glassy and transparent

shiny and opaque

2.

DRAG AND DROP QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

When minerals combine, they form different, ​ (a)   that make up the Earth's crust.

rocks
glaciers
elements

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which of these minerals would most likely be valued as gem and used in jewelry?

Olivine, a green or gray mineral with a hardness rating of 6.5

Gypsum, a pink or white mineral with a hardness of 2

Galena, a metallic silver mineral with a hardness rating of 2.5

4.

DROPDOWN QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

The geometric shape of a mineral that reflects its internal crystalline arrangement of atoms is ​ (a)  

mineral crystal
luster
Mohs Hardness Scale

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Two minerals of the same color will always have the same streak color.

True

False

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Quartz is number 7 on the Mohs Hardness Scale. Apatite is number 5. A student has a mineral sample that scratches apatite, but quartz scratches the sample. What is the mineral's most likely hardness?

2

10

6

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which technique would a student use with the Mohs Hardness Scale?

Shine light on a mineral

Scratch a mineral

Get a mineral wet

8.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Minerals are inorganic. What does this mean?

Minerals breathe air.

Minerals don't have the chemical and structural characteristics of living things.

Minerals form the Earth's Lithosphere.

9.

DRAG AND DROP QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Glassy, shiny, opaque, dull. These are words that can be used to describe a mineral's ​ (a)  

luster.
hardness.
streak.