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Minerals

Total questions: 17

Worksheet time: 9mins

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1.

Minerals are a component of _________________.

a)

Stones

b)

DIamonds

c)

Rocks

d)

Solids

2.

Tiny pieces of minerals found in rock are called

a)

Homogenous

b)

Mineral grains

c)

Solids

d)

Streaks

3.

Minerals are solid, _______________ substances

a)

Homogeneous

b)

Cleavage

c)

Mineral grain

d)

Shiny

4.

Homogeneous definition: ______________

a)

Things that are solid

b)

Things that are hot

c)

Things that are made up of only one thing

d)

Things that are shiny

5.

What is the hardest of all minerals?

a)

Quartz

b)

topaz

c)

Corondum

d)

Diamond

6.

What do you use to figure out to hardness on a mineral?

a)

Mineral scale

b)

MOH'S scale

c)

Science testing lab

d)

MOH'S mineral website

7.

What are the 5 properties you look for in a mineral?

a)

Color, chalk, touch, fractions, rocks

b)

steak, luster, softness, color, shape

c)

Luster, Hardness, Streak, Color, cleavage

d)

Salt, concrete, color, length, density

8.

What is luster?

a)

The way a mineral reflects light

b)

How hard it is

c)

The color and appearance

d)

The way a mineral breaks

e)

The color of the mineral in powdered form

9.

What is streak?

a)

The way a mineral reflects light

b)

How hard it is

c)

The color and appearance

d)

the way a mineral breaks

e)

The color of the mineral in powdered form

10.

What is cleavage?

a)

The way a mineral reflects light

b)

How hard it is

c)

The color of the mineral in powdered form

d)

color and appearance

e)

the way a mineral breaks

11.

What is color?

a)

The way a mineral reflects light

b)

how hard it is

c)

the color and appearance

d)

the way a mineral breaks

e)

the color and appearance of the mineral in powdered form

12.

What is hardness?

a)

The way a mineral reflects light

b)

How hard it is

c)

the color and appearance of the mineral in powdered form

d)

color and appearance

e)

the way a mineral breaks

13.

Solid means... (Select all that apply)

a)

Cannot be liquid

b)

Cannot be gas

c)

has to be 3D

d)

mineral

14.

Naturally occurring means...

a)

Cannot be liquid or gas

b)

does not contain any type of organic material

c)

formed inside or outside the Earth with ZERO input from humans

d)

the color and appearance of the mineral in powdered form

15.

Inorganic means…

a)

Cannot he liquid or gas

b)

Is not made from any type of organic material

c)

The atoms that make up the mineral are arranged the exact way in every sample of that mineral

d)

Made of the same material throughout the entire sample

16.

Fixed atom structure is..

a)

the atoms that make up the mineral are arranged the exact way in every sample or that mineral

b)

Not made of organic material

c)

The color of the mineral in powdered form

d)

Other…

17.

Fixed chemical composition is…

a)

The atoms that make up the mineral are arranged in the exact way in every sample of that mineral

b)

Made up of the same material are arranged throughout the entire sample