Mineral Formation

How do minerals form from magma or lava?

• When the magma or lava is hot the pressure from earth's surface creates crystals

• The particles inside the magma or lava dissolve and create crystals

• As the magma or lava cools down or hardens to a solid state it creates crystals

ALL minerals form through what process?

• Crystallization

• Evaporation

• Dissolving of Substances

• Melting

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Minerals form by all the following processes EXCEPT

• Magma or Lava

• Hot water solution

• Cool water solution

• Erosion & deposition

The process by which atoms are arranged to form a material with a crystal structure is known as...

• Crystallization

• Geodes

• Formation from Magma and Lava

• Formation from Solutions

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What 5 ways can minerals form?

• Solidification, Precipitation from a solution, Solid-state diffusion, Biomineralization, and Precipitation directly from a gas.

• None of these

A mineral must by formed by ___________.

• processes that occur in the natural world

• processes that occur in the human world

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Minerals are made in nature through

• freezing and thawing

• evaporation and condensation

• heat and pressure

• erosion and deposition

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What are the three ways minerals can form? Choose (3) THREE answers.

• organic material

• mineral-rich solutions

• cooling magma/lava

• heat and pressure

• from dripping water

Minerals form by _____________________ of magma and lava. 

• crystallization,

• freezing

• deposition

• evaporation

Which of the following is not one of the ways that ore minerals may form?

• flooding empty stream beds and rivers

• cooling of magma

• circulation of hydrothermal solutions through rocks

• evaporation of water that contain salts