Rocks and Minerals
Minerals
Moh
Minerals
Mineral ID
Rocks
Possible Test
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What is a naturally occurring,
inorganic solid with orderly
crystalline structure, and a
definite chemical composition?
Why is ice in a glacier
considered to be a mineral
but water from a glacier is
not?
A mineral is inorganic which means
that it contains what?
Why is concrete not considered a
mineral?
Which test is generally the least
useful in identifying minerals?
According to the Mohs scale, what is the
hardest known mineral?
The softest mineral on the Mohs
hardness scale is what?
What would happen if you rubbed
a piece of fluorite against a piece
of feldspar?
An unknown mineral scratches
apatite and is scratched by
corundum. What can you
conclude about the mineral
hardness?
If you wanted to scratch
diamond what would you use??
If you had a mineral with a black
streak and hardness greater than
5.5, what could it be?
If you had a non-metallic mineral that
was green and could not scratch
pyrite, it would be which of the
following?
Which single property would be the best to
determine if you had a sample of
amphibole or pyroxene?
•Which of the following is true of quartz?
Which mineral on this chart
can scratch quartz?
Which of the many quantitative tests
would be the most accurate to use to
determine the difference between pyrite
and magnetite?
The heat that changes a
rock into metamorphic rock
comes from where?
Which type of rock has large
crystals because of its slow
cooling process?
What produces igneous rock?
What is the difference between
foliation and stratification?
What process causes all three
rocks to turn into sediment?
Why are metamorphic rocks
similar to Goldilocks?
If clastic sediment comes from
glaciers, and the great lakes
(Lake Erie for example) were
formed by glaciers, what kind of
rock is in and around Lake Erie?
Halite is usually buried under
ground and must be mined. If the
halite started on the surface of the
earth, how did it end up
underground?
Why can’t igneous and
metamorphic rocks hold
fossils?
Since many minerals are located
several miles beneath earth’s
surface, what 2 types of rock must
they be?
Minerals
Moh Minerals
Mineral ID
Rocks
Possible Test Questions
1000
What is a naturally
occurring, inorganic solid
with orderly crystalline
structure, and a definite
chemical composition?
1000
According to the Mohs
scale, what is the hardest
known mineral?
1000
If you had a mineral with a black
streak and hardness greater
than 5.5, what could it be?
1000
The heat that changes a
rock into metamorphic rock
comes from where?
1000
Why are metamorphic
rocks similar to Goldilocks?
2000
Why is ice in a glacier
considered to be a
mineral but water from
a glacier is not?
2000
The softest mineral on the
Mohs hardness scale is
what?
2000
If you had a non-metallic
mineral that was green and
could not scratch pyrite, it
would be which of the
following?
2000
Which type of rock has
large crystals because of its
slow cooling process?
2000
If clastic sediment comes
from glaciers, and the great
lakes (Lake Erie for
example) were formed by
glaciers, what kind of rock
is in and around Lake Erie?
3000
A mineral is inorganic
which means that it
contains what?
3000
What would happen if
you rubbed a piece of
fluorite against a piece of
feldspar?
3000
Which single property would be
the best to determine if you had
a sample of amphibole or
pyroxene?
3000
What produces igneous
rock?
3000
Halite is usually buried
under ground and must be
mined. If the halite started
on the surface of the earth,
how did it end up
underground?
4000
Why is concrete not
considered a mineral?
4000
An unknown mineral
scratches apatite and is
scratched by corundum.
What can you conclude
about the mineral
hardness?
4000
Which mineral on this chart can
scratch quartz?
4000
What is the difference
between foliation and
stratification?
4000
Why can’t igneous and
metamorphic rocks hold
fossils?
5000
Which test is generally
the least useful in
identifying minerals?
5000
If you wanted to scratch
diamond what would you
use??
5000
Which of the many quantitative
tests would be the most
accurate to use to determine
the difference between pyrite
and magnetite?
5000
What process causes all
three rocks to turn into
sediment?
5000
Since many minerals are
located several miles
beneath earth’s surface,
what 2 types of rock must
they be?
Minerals
Moh Minerals
1000
Mineral
Mineral ID
1000
diamond
amphibole
3000
Nothing that is or has been
living.
3000
Flourite would be scratched
by feldspar
hardness
2000
4000
Hardness between 5-9;
note that equal hardness
will scratch each other
that’s why it is 5 and 9!
5000
Color
1000
Need the temperature and
pressure to be just right.
2000
2000
Intrusive igneous
2000
Sedimentary rock.
3000
3000
Volcanic eruptions and
pooled magma
3000
Ancient sea dried up
leaving mud and muck on
top of the halite.
4000
Quartz can scratch itself.
5000
diamond
1000
magma
1000
talc
Manmade
Possible Test Questions
pyrite
2000
Ice is a solid
4000
Rocks
5000
density
4000
Foliation aligned grains in
metamorphic rock while
stratification is layering in
sedimentary rock.
5000
Weathering and erosion.
4000
Too hot.
5000
It could be all 3.