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Test Description: This is to help you review for your minerals assessment
Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.
1) What is Cleavage?
A
A minerals tendency to break in a pattern
B
A minerals tendency to break in irregular pieces
C
How the light reflects off a mineral
D
How hard or soft a mineral is by scratching it
2) What is fracture?
A
How the light reflects off a mineral
B
A minerals tendency to break in irregular pieces
C
How hard or soft a mineral is by scratching it
D
A minerals tendency to break in a pattern
3) What is the hardness test?
A
Seeing how heavy something is compared to a different sample
B
You will determine how hard or soft a mineral is by scratching it
C
Determining how it breaks
D
Examining the mineral to see how light reflects off of it.
4) What is the density test?
A
Examining the mineral to see how light reflects off of it.
B
Seeing how heavy something is compared to a different sample
C
Determining how it breaks
D
You will determine how hard or soft a mineral is by scratching it
5) What does the test for luster determine?
A
Seeing how heavy something is compared to a different sample
B
Examining the mineral to see how light reflects off of it.
C
Determining how it breaks
D
You will determine how hard or soft a mineral is by scratching it
6) What is the test for streak?
A
Determining how a mineral breaks
B
Seeing how heavy something is compared to a different sample
C
Where you scrape the mineral on a porcelain plate and look at the powder
D
Examining the mineral to see how light reflects off of it.
7) Which test can not stand on its own because it is the least reliable?
A
Hardness
B
Color
C
Luster
D
Streak
8) Which test listed below would NOT be considered a special property?
A
Hardness
B
Magnetic
C
Reacts with acid
D
Radioactive
9) What does the characteristic forms in nature mean?
A
No human can intervene with its creation
B
Can not be a liquid or a gas
C
The number and arrangement of the elements that make the minerals
D
The repeating 3D pattern
10) What does the characteristic Inorganic mean?
A
No human can intervene with its creation
B
It can NOT be created from something that was once alive
C
The repeating 3D pattern
D
Can not be a liquid or a gas
11) What does the characteristic is a solid mean?
A
It can NOT be created from something that was once alive
B
The repeating 3D pattern
C
No human can intervene with its creation
D
Can not be a liquid or a gas
12) What does definite chemical composition mean?
A
The repeating 3D pattern
B
No human can intervene with its creation
C
The set number and arrangement of the elements that make the minerals
D
It can NOT be created from something that was once alive
13) What is the mineral halite used for?
A
baby powder
B
Computer parts
C
Table salt
D
toothpaste
14) What mineral is used to make baby powder?
A
Fluorite
B
Talc
C
Halite
D
Copper/gold
15) What mineral is used to help strengthen your bones and teeth?
A
Copper
B
Halite
C
Talc
D
Calcium
16) What mineral is used to make computer parts?
A
Copper/gold
B
Halite
C
Fluorite
D
Talc
17) What is the mineral used to make toothpaste?
A
Halite
B
Calcium
C
Talc
D
Fluorite
18) Which option is not a gemstone?
A
Diamond
B
Calcium
C
Ruby
D
Emerald
19) Which special property is that some minerals will glow when under a black light?
A
Radioactive
B
Fluorescence
C
React with acid
D
Magnetic
20) What is the special property where the mineral will be pulled to a magnetic?
A
Magnetic
B
Radioactive
C
Reacts with acid
D
Fluorescence
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