Mineral & Rock Review
Chapter 2
Mrs. Urban
Question
1. What are the five characteristics
that make up a mineral?
2. What is the term that describes how
a mineral reflects light from its
surface?
3. What is the color of a mineral’s
powder called?
4. Because minerals do not come from
once-living materials, they are said
to be what?
5. In a mineral, the particles line up in
a repeating pattern to form what?
6. What is it called when minerals do
not split apart evenly?
7. If you broke a mineral into tiny
pieces, would each piece show the
same or different crystal structure?
8. How do you determine a mineral’s
hardness?
9. Why are brick, steel and glass NOT
classified as minerals?
10. Is a mineral considered a solid,
liquid or gas?
11. What are 5 tests to help identify a
mineral?
12. Be able to identify a mineral using
the various tests and mineral chart
at a lab station.
13. Be familiar with how to use Moh’s
Hardness scale.
14. What is density?
Answer
15. Be able to determine a mineral’s
density using the 3 step method.
16. What are the particles of minerals
or other rocks that make up a rock
called?
17. The look and feel of a rock’s
surface is called what?
18. What is the difference between a
mineral and rock?
19. Granite is an example of what type
of rock?
20. What type of rock texture can only
be seen with a microscope?
21. What type of igneous rock is basalt
– intrusive or extrusive?
22. What type of metamorphic rock has
grains that line up in parallel bands?
23. What is the process called in which
dissolved minerals crystallize and
glue particles of sediment together?
24. Heat and pressure deep beneath
Earth’s surface can change any rock
into what?
25. Coal is an example of what type of
rock?
26. The carrying away of rock
fragments by water, wind or ice is
called what?
27. Igneous rock formed when magma
hardens beneath Earth’s surface is
called what?
28. What is the most abundant intrusive
rock in the continental crust?
29. What 3 things describe a rock’s
texture?
30. What is the process called by which
sediment settles out of water or
wind carrying it?
31. What type of rock is formed from
the cooling of magma below the
surface or lava at the surface?
32. What is rock generally made up of?
33. Foliated and nonfoliated are terms
uses to describe the texture of what
type of rocks?
34. Small, solid pieces of material that
come from rocks or living things
are called what?
35. What is the process that presses
sediment together?
36. What is the hardest known mineral?
37. Name the sedimentary rock made
up of rock fragments with rounded
edges.
38. Be familiar with how to identify a
rock into one of the 3 rock groups.
39. What is the rock cycle?
40. What are the movements that cause
the uplift, folding and faulting that
move the rocks during the rock
cycle?