ES - Year End (OLD SMS Mineral Test)

1. The solid, plastic layer of the mantle where convection if found is called the

• core

• mesosphere

• lithosphere

• asthenosphere

2. The rocky outer surface of the earth that is divided into plates

• core

• mesosphere

• lithosphere

• asthenosphere

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

3. The inner core is composed primarily of what two elements?

• carbon and oxygen

• iron and nickel

• silicon and aluminum

• nitrogen and oxygen

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

4. The two most common elements in Earth’s crust are

• nitrogen and carbon

• oxygen and silicon

• carbon and oxygen

• nitrogen and oxygen

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-1

5. What are the two main groups of minerals?

• metallic and nonmetallic

• rock-forming and powder

• silicate and nonsilicate

• carbonate and silicate

6. Which shows silicate crystalline structures from leastto most complex?

• isolated, single-chain, double-chain, sheet, framework

• framework, sheet, single-chain, double-chain, isolated

• single-chain, double-chain, sheet, framework, isolated

• single-chain, double-chain, framework, sheet, isolated

7. A double-chain silicate is

• a framework crystalline structure

• two bonded single-chains

• a double ring of silicon atoms

• double the silicon atoms

8. What two elements must be present in a silicate?

• silicon and carbon

• silicon and quartz

• silicon and sodium

• silicon and oxygen

9. Which of the following groupings lists only minerals?

• quartz, coal, basalt

• pyrite, halite, hematite

• granite, gypsum, talc

• fluorite, feldspar, obsidian

10. A mineral is described as fluorescent when it

• glows under natural light

• glows under ultraviolet light

• grows under fluorescent light

• grows when electrically charged.