Minerals Lesson

How do you test the hardness of a mineral? 

• Throw it against a wall

• Scratch Test

• Step on it

• Kick it until it breaks

form when minerals that form from solutions or sediment from older rocks get pressed and cemented together.

• Igneous

• Sedimentary

• Metamorphic

Which item is a mineral?

• Coral

• Diamond

• Rock

• Plastic

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Silicate is

• a mineral that contains live organisms

• a mineral that occurs as a liquid

• a mineral that contains silicon and oxygen

• not a rock-forming mineral

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A mineral is

• naturally occurring, inorganic, and liquid

• naturally occurring, organic, and solid

• lab manufactured, organic, and solid

• naturally occurring, inorganic, and solid

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Minerals have a definite chemical composition

• True

• False

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Minerals have an orderly arrangement of atoms

• True

• False

The two main families of rock-forming minerals are

• feldspar and quartz

• lava and magma

• silicates and nonsilicates

• halite and calcite

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All minerals form through

• heat and pressure

• crystallization

• heating and rapid cooling

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Crystal atoms join

• randomly

• in a straight line

• in a repeating pattern

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