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A mystery mineral can scratch calcite but not apatite what is its range of hardness?
a) Softer then 3, but harder then 5
b) Softer then 5, but harder then 6
c) Softer then 6, but harder then 7
d) Softer then 4, but harder then 3

A mystery mineral can scratch topaz but not diamond what is its range of hardness?
a) Softer then 7, but harder then 8
b) Softer then 10, but harder then 8
c) Softer then 8, but harder then 10
d) Softer then 5, but harder then 7

Gypsum can scratch talc and feldspar can scratch apatite. List these minerals from softest to hardest
a) Gypsum, talk, feldspar and apatite
b) Talc, gypsum, apatite, feldspar
c) talc, gypsum, feldspar, apatite
d) feldspar, apatite, gypsum, talc

What minerals can scratch Quartz
a) calcite
b) feldspar
c) fluorite
d) topaz

What rock is formed by HEAT and PRESSURE
a) Sedimentary
b) Metamorphic
c) Igneous
d)

What type of rock is formed from erosion and weathering of other rocks.
a) Sedimentary
b) Metamorphic
c) Igneous
d)

What type of rock is formed from cooled magma
a) Sedimentary
b) Metamorphic
c) Igneous
d)

How does a igneous rock change into a metamorphic rock.
a) The igneous rock is weathered and eroded away to become another rock
b) The igneous rock melts becoming magma that cools and crystallizes into another rock
c) The rocks sediments get compacted and cemented together to become another rock
d) The rock gets pushed under ground were heat and pressure change its minerals to become another kind of rock

What type of igneous rock cools on the surface of the earth
a) Intrusive igneous rock
b) Extrusive igneous rock
c) Both intrusive and extrusive igneous rock
d) Magma

What type of plate boundary collides with one another?
a) Divergent
b) Convergent
c) Transform
d)

What type of plate boundary divides from each other
a) Divergent
b) Convergent
c) Transform
d)

At what plate boundary does subduction occur?
a) Divergent
b) Convergent
c) Transform
d)

which process explains why less dense, hot magma rises to the surface to displace denser, colder magma moving earths tectonic plates
a) Coduction
b) Heat currents
c) Convection
d) Diffusion

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