Rock and Mineral Review

______ and _____ are examples of polymorphs.

• graphite and talc

• quartz and garnett

• gold and platinum

• graphite and diamond

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NGSS.MS-PS1-4

______ the process of returning land to its near original state.

metamorphic rocks are formed from _______ and _____.

• heat and cementation

• pressure and cooling

• heat and pressure

• cementation and pressure

Which type of mining has a higher environmental impact to wildlife and wilderness?

• Subsurface mining

• Surface mining

1. a cycle of processes undergone by rocks in the earth's crust, involving igneous intrusion, uplift, erosion, transportation, deposition as sedimentary rock, metamorphism, remelting, and further igneous intrusion.

Which is not a step in land reclamation?

• contouring land

• careful monitoring

• reseeding with beautiful vegetation

• placing topsoil

How fast or slow a rock cools determines the size of its _______

• layers

• clasts

• grains

• crystals

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

ores must have enough useful material to mine for _________

• a profit

• liquidization

• smelting

• cell phones

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

to be a mineral it the substance must exist as a(n) _______ on normal Earth conditions

• liquid

• alloy

• metalloid

• solid

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NGSS.MS-PS1-4

What type of mining is considered more precise and has a higher profit yield?

• surface mining

• subsurface mining