Earth Science Rocks and Minerals REVIEW

What is true about minerals?

• They are naturally occurring and inorganic.
• They can be synthetically produced.
• They are organic and inorganic
• They are occasionally found in a liquid state

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

Which of the following is NOT a test used to identify most minerals?

• luster
• cleavage
• magnetism
• streak

Minerals always exist in a(n) ____ form.

• liquid
• gaseous
• solid
• organic

Silver, gold, and copper have shiny surfaces and thus are said to have ____.

• dull luster
• metallic luster
• waxy luster
• nonmetallic luster

Intrusive igneous rocks form ____.

• fine-grained rocks
• when a molten mass of rocks cools quickly
• on Earth's surface
• coarse-grained rocks

Some Rocks are formed when magma ____.

• erodes
• undergoes radioactive decay
• crystallizes
• weathers

Igneous rocks that cool slowly beneath Earth’s crust are ____.

• extrusive
• instrusive
• metamorphic
• always magnetic

Igneous rocks that cool quickly on Earth’s surface are ____.

• extrusive
• intrusive
• metamorphic
• always magnetic

Extrusive rocks, which cool more rapidly than intrusive rocks, are generally more ____.

• coarsely grained (big crystals)
• finely grained (small crystals)
• radioactive
• magnetic

Which can occur in the rock cycle?

• Sedimentary rock is heated and squeezed to form metamorphic rock
• Igneous rock is eroded to form metamorphic rock.
• Metamorphic rock melts to form sedimentary rock
• none of the above