Mineral and Rocks Test Review

Minerals and Rocks Test Review

Question 1 What does inorganic mean?

Answer 1 Something that does not arise from once living things; not from the remains of plants or animals

Answer 2 The way a mineral breaks in straight lines; a regular pattern that can be determined

Question 3 True or False: The faster the magma cools, the larger the mineral crystals will form.

Answer 3 False; smaller crystals would form

Question 4 What does it mean when we say a mineral always contains certain elements in definite proportions?

Answer 4 It has a definite chemical composition

Question 5 Why is coal not a mineral?

Answer 5 It is made from the remains of plants and animals

Question 6 Magma that cools deep within the Earth forms minerals with what type of crystals?

Question 7 A solid mixture of two or metal is a what?

Question 8 Earthmoving equipment strips away soil to expose ore in what type of mining?

Question 9 What is the softest mineral on the Mohs hardness scale?

Question 10 Why are metals useful as tools?

Answer 10 Because they can be shaped easily, but they are hard

Question 11 Why are cement, brick, steel, and glass not considered minerals?

Answer 11 Because they are man made (not naturally occurring)

Question 12 What is the repeating pattern of a mineral’s particles called?

Question 13 What is the term used to describe how a mineral reflects light from its surface?

Question 14 What is the hardest known mineral?

Question 15 Which type of mine often has a network of tunnels that extend deep into the ground?

Question 16 What is the color of a mineral’s powder called?

Question 17 What is the term for a mineral that glows under ultraviolet light?

Question 18 What is a rock called that contains a metal or other economically useful mineral?

Question 19 What type of mining involves digging a huge hole?

Question 20 True or false: The mineral quartz, which is found in sand, is used to make glass and electronic equipment.

Question 21 What is a gemstone?

Answer 21 A rare, hard, colorful mineral with a brilliant or glassy luster

Answer 22 A substance with a definite shape and definite volume

Question 23 What does it mean we say that a mineral must be naturally occurring?

Answer 23 It forms by the process that shapes the Earth; it is not man made

Question 24 What are some of the special properties of minerals?

Answer 24 Fluorescence Chemical Reactivity Electrical Properties Radioactivity Double Image

Question 25 Why is color not the best way to identify a mineral?

Answer 25 Because minerals like quartz can come in a variety of colors, and some minerals are the same color as other minerals.

Question 26 What is a mineral?

Answer 26 A solid, inorganic, crystalline solid, with a definite chemical make up

Question 27 True or False: Each major group of rocks only follows one pathway through the rock cycle.

Question 28 What is a rock generally made up of?

Answer 28 Minerals and other materials

Question 29 What type of rock forms from the cooling of lava above the ground or the cooling of magma below the surface?

Question 30 What is the process where dissolved minerals crystallize and glue particles of sediment together?

Question 31 Chalk formed from sediments made of skeletons of microscopic living things in the ocean must be what type of sedimentary rock?

Question 32 Heat and pressure deep within the Earth can change any type of rock into what?

Question 33 What does it mean if a metamorphic rock is nonfoliated?

Answer 33 It does not have layers.

Question 34 In the rock cycle, what type or types of rocks can form sedimentary rocks?

Question 35 What is a sedimentary rock made up of rounded fragments of other rocks called?

Question 36 True or false: Sandstone changing into quartzite is an example of the process that forms sedimentary rocks.

Question 37 True or false: The most common extrusive rock is basalt.

Question 38 How do geologists describe a rock’s texture?

Answer 38 The size, shape, and pattern of the rock’s grains

Question 39 A rock that cools very quickly when it forms will have what type of texture?

Answer 39 Smooth and shiny with no visible grain

Question 40 Where do most metamorphic rocks form?

Answer 40 Deep below the surface of the Earth

Question 41 What is the most abundant intrusive rock?

Question 42 A sedimentary rock formed when rock fragments squeeze together is called what?

Question 43 How do geologists classify metamorphic rocks?

Answer 43 By the arrangement of the grains that make up the rock

Question 44 The series of processes on the Earth and below the Earth’s surface that slowly changes rocks from one kind to another is called what?

Question 45 True or false: Particles of a rock called grains give a rock its texture.

Question 46 True or false: Examples of clastic rocks, which are made of particles of other rocks, include sandstone, shale, and breccia.

Question 47 When all the grains of a rock are large and easy to see, they are described as what?

Question 48 The process by which sediment settles out of the water or wind carrying it is called what?

Question 49 True or false: Igneous rocks that formed beneath the Earth’s surface are extrusive rocks.

Question 50 What does foliated mean?

Answer 50 When a metamorphic rock’s grains are arranged in parallel layers

Mineral and Rocks Test Review

More Related Content

What's hot

Viewers also liked

Similar to Mineral and Rocks Test Review

More from Janelle Wilson

Recently uploaded

Mineral and Rocks Test Review