Rock and Mineral Review

A mineral breaks into pieces like are shown in the picture. How would you describe its breakage?

• Fracture

• Cleavage

• Glassy

• Waxy

Which mineral property is being shown here?

• luster

• hardness

• cleavage

• streak

Using the flowchart, identify the letter that best represents the minerals characteristics.

• A

• Mineral 2

  Cleavage

  White/Colorless Streak

  Soft

  Non-metallic

• J

• Mineral 1

  Fracture

  Colored Streak

  Scratches Glass

  Non-metallic

• O

• Mineral 4

  Fracture

  Colorless streak

  soft

  nonmetallic

• G

• Mineral 5

  Fracture

  colored streak

  soft

  metallic

• D

• Mineral 3

  Cleavage

  Colored Streak

  Hard

  Metallic

A mineral breaks into pieces like are shown in the picture. How would you describe its breakage?

• Fracture

• Cleavage

• Glassy

• Waxy

Metallic and nonmetallic are two examples of the physical property _______________.

• streak

• color

• luster

• cleavage

The photograph shows the mineral muscovite mica. Which physical property can be observed in this photograph?

• cleavage

• hardness

• magnetism

• streak

Rock X is most likely

• breccia

• slate

• metaconglomerate

• vesicular basalt

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

What is the texture of an igneous rock formed from magma that cooled slowly deep underground?

• nonvesicular and coarse

• nonvesicular and glassy

• vesicular and fine

• vesicular and very coarse

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

Which medium-grain-sized metamorphic rock is composed mostly of the same mineral as the sedimentary rock limestone?

• gneiss

• marble

• quartzite

• schist

Which mineral is commonly used as the “lead” in pencils?

• pyrite

• graphite

• galena

• fluorite