Minerals Quiz Study Guide
Directions: Answer the following questions to help you study for you quiz.
1. List the 5 characteristics that have to be present in order for an object to be a mineral.
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2. What is the softest item on the MOHS hardness scale? List its number.
3. What is the hardest item on the MOHS hardness scale? List its number.
4. What are the 8 properties used to identify minerals?
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5. List 5 places that you can find/use minerals.
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6. The words metallic and nonmetallic are associated with what property of minerals?
a. Color
b. Luster
c. Hardness
d. Streak
7. What are the two ways minerals are formed?
a. Fossilized organisms
b. Cooling magma
c. Falling asteroids from space
d. Precipitation of water
8. Are all minerals in a specific color? Give an example of a mineral that is and one that is
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9. What happens to some minerals when you put acid on it? Does this happen to all
minerals?
10. List 5 different minerals.
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