Rocks and Minerals

Rocks and Minerals

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What is a mineral?

• a solid material formed by nature in or on Earth’s crust

• a material that has a crystal form

• a material that has its own set of properties

• a material that is not formed by a living thing

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Each mineral has its own set of properties.

• True

• False

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No two minerals have the same set of properties.

• True

• False

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Properties of minerals include:

• color

• luster

• streak

• hardness

• cleavage

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How are rocks and minerals related?

• Minerals have rocks in them

• rocks are made up of minerals

• they are not related at all

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Rocks are classified by how they are formed.

• True

• False

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What type of rock forms when (magma) cools and hardens

• metamorphic

• igneous

• sedimentary

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What type of rock is form when bits of rocks, shells and remains of living things are pressed and cemented together over millions of years?

• metamorphic

• igneous

• sedimentary

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What type of rock forms when rocks have been squeezed and heated deep within the Earth's crust?

• igneous

• metamorphic

• sedimentary

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Daunte performs several tests on a mineral to help identify it. The picture shows one of the tests he performed. Which property of the mineral will Daunte be able to identify using this test?

• attraction to magnets

• streak color

• hardness

• cleaveage

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Lin found an igneous rock with grains of mineral crystal so small that they could not be identified . Where did this rock most likely form?

• in a glacier

• in the crust, just below the Earth's surface

• on the bottom of a river

• on the surface of the Earth

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Susan tested the properties of an unknown mineral that she found in a parking lot outside a store. Because of what she learned from her tests she turned the mineral back in to the store owner and was rewarded for returning a lost diamond. Which property helped Susan know that this mineral was a diamond?

• luster

• color

• hardness

• cleavage

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Susanna performs several tests on a mineral to help identify it. The picture shows one of the tests she performed. Which property of the mineral will Susanna be able to identify using this test?

• luster

• streak color

• hardness

• cleavage

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Which of the following is the way that metamorphic rocks form?

• compressing and cementing

• deposition

• squeezing and heating

• weathering and erosion

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On a vacation to Hawaii, Lin picked up some pieces of black rock which was full of holes and felt very light. What type of rock had Lin most likely found?

• sedimentary

• metamorphic

• lava

• igneous

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Igneous rock is formed from magma. It takes extreme heat to turn rock to magma. Where would it be hot enough to melt rock?

• in the bottom of a stream

• in the Earth's crust

• deep within the Earth

• on the Earth's surface