Vocabulary
Vocabulary
Minerals and Rocks
Rocks and Minerals
100

What is magma

A. melted, cooled, and hardened rock.

B. Rock formed by heat or pressure

C. hot liquid rock inside the earth

C. Hot Liquid rock inside the earth

100

What is a sedimentary rock?

A. rock and organic bits pressed together and cemented

B. igneous rock that forms on the earths surface

C. rock formed by heat or pressure

A.  rock and organic bits pressed together and cemented

100

What is the weakest mineral? and can it scratch any other minerals?

A. talc

B. quartz

C. topaz

A. talc, no

100

The _____________ describes how a rock may be changed from igneous to sedimentary to metamorphic.

A. Moh's scale

B. The rock cycle

C. pressure

B. The rock cycle

200

What is an igneous rock?

A. melted, cooled, and hardened rock

B. rock and organic bits pressed together and cemented

C. rock formed by heat and pressure 

A. Melted, cooled, and hardened rock

200

What is Metamorphic rock?

A. melted, cooled, and hardened rock

B. Rock and organic bits pressed together

C. Rock formed by heat or pressure

C. Rock formed by heat or pressure

200

Mineral A is harder than mineral B if___________.

A. A weighs than B

B. A scratches B

C. A leaves a bigger scratch than B

B. A scratches B

200

Because the ___________ of minerals may vary, it is not the best way to identify minerals.

A. Color

B. Luster

C. Streak

A. Color

300

What is Luster?

A. Color a mineral leaves on a tile

B. ability of a mineral to resist being scratched

C. how a mineral reflects light 

C. How a mineral reflects light


300

What is hardness?

A. color a mineral leaves on a tile

B. ability of a mineral to resist being scratched. 

C. how a mineral reflects light

B. ability of a mineral to resist being scratched.

300

Not all minerals are_________.

A. Solids

B. found in the earth

C. shiny 

D. found naturally

C. Shiny

300

Heat and ________ form a metamorphic rock.

A. melting

B. Cooling

C. Pressure

C. pressure

400

What is streak?

A. color a mineral leaves on a tile

B. how a mineral reflects light

C. ability of a mineral to resist being scratched

A. Color a mineral leaves on a tile

400

What is an intrusive rock?

A. igneous rock that forms underground

B. igneous rock that forms on the earth's surface

C. rock formed by heat or pressure

A. igneous rock that forms underground

400

A diamond is unique because ___________.

A. It is the most precious of minerals

B. no other mineral can scratch it

C. it is clear

B. no other mineral can scratch it

400

Hardness of a rock is measured on _______ scale.

A. Mr. Hewuse's

B. Moh's

C. Hardness

B. Moh's

500

What is a mineral?

A. melted, cooled, and hardened rock

B. element or compound found in the earth

C. hot liquid rock inside the earth

B. element or compound found in the earth

500

What is an extrusive rock?

A. igneous rock that forms underground

B. igneous rock that forms on the earth's surface

C. rock formed by heat or pressure

B. igneous rock that forms on the earth's surface

500

You can use________ to tell gold from pyrite.

A. color

B. Luster

C. Streak

D. Size

C. Streak

500

The two kinds of luster are__________.

A. Shiny and dull

B. metallic and nonmetallic

C. silver and gold

B. metallic and nonmetallic

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