Understanding Minerals

Minerals form together to form _________.

• Water

• Oil

• Rocks

• Pizza

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Identify one important use of minerals in our everyday lives.

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Water could be considered a mineral according the first requirement.

• True

• False

The substance must be _________ on earth, not man-made.

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Inorganic materials are no made from living things. Which of the following is inorganic?

• Coral

• Leaves

• Bones

• Table Salt

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Pyrite is only sometimes made up of an arrangment of the elements iron and sulfur.

• True

• False

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Minerals must be made up of repeating, orderly __________ structures.

• organic

• crystal

• flexible

• liquid

Why is the mineral sulfur yellow?

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Would you consider ice to be a mineral? Why or why not?