Rocks and Minerals
Name_______________________ Period_____
Group_____
Directions: Double click on the Rocks and Minerals icon. Click on Rocks & Minerals in the Main Menu
and answer then “Intermediate” “Minerals”. There is not a question for every page, however, you should
read every page and follow all directions.
Q1: What mineral is used in baby powder?
Q2: Circle Y for yes and N for no for each of the following statements.
Gold is a mineral.
Synthetic diamonds are minerals.
Minerals must be solid.
Quartz is considered a mineral.
Petroleum is a mineral.
Animal bone is a mineral.
Ice is a mineral.
Granite is a mineral.
Steel is a mineral.
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Y
N
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Q3: Match the type of luster with each mineral below. A-Metallic, B-Glassy, C-Pearly, D-Earthy (dull)
____Pyrite
____Quartz
____Limonite
____Bauxite
____Copper
____Talc
Q4: What is another name for purple quartz?
Q5: What is the second hardest mineral on Mohs scale of hardness?
Q6: Write down the correct answer (A, B, C, or D) for the hardness of each sample.
____Sample 1
____Sample 2
____Sample 3
Q7: How many planes of cleavage does biotite mica have?
Q8: What is the angle between adjacent planes of cleavage in example 1?
Q9: What mineral has this type of cleavage?
Q10: What is the angle between adjacent planes of cleavage in example 2?
Q11: What mineral has this type of cleavage?
Q12: Write the correct number of planes of cleavage for each of the following minerals.
____Muscovite Mica
____Halite
____Feldspar
____Fluorite
____Calcite
Q13: Name a mineral that has no cleavage.
Q14: What are the three types of fracture called?
Q15: What is specific gravity?
Q16: Show your all the data, your work, and the result for calculating the specific gravity of the first
mineral below.
Q17: Show your all the data, your work, and the result for calculating the specific gravity of the second
mineral below.
Q18: What mineral can be identified by taste? Feel? Magnetism? Reaction to acid?
Q19: Write your answers to the 10 questions below:
Q20: Identify the first 6 minerals and write their identity below, then click on the Main Menu button, then
click on the Rock Cycle, then continue to answer the questions.
Q21: What 5 steps are required to change an igneous rock into a sedimentary rock?
Q22: Which igneous rock crystallizes beneath the Earth's surface, basalt or granite?
Q23: What is weathering?
Q24: What term is used to describe when rock fragments are picked up and transported?
Q25: What does lithification mean?
Q26: What are 3 examples of sedimentary rock?
Q27: What happens to the layers in sedimentary rock when it gets subjected to heat and pressure?
Q28: Write A, B, and C on the correct arrows in the figure below.
Q29: Which choice is not a major class of rock?
Q30:
rocks form from cooling magma.
Q31: The gradual breakup of rock at the Earth's surface is called
.
Q32: Which choice is not considered an erosional agent?
Q33: In becoming a rock, sediments must undergo
.
Q34: Where are metamorphic rocks normally formed?
Q35: Why does magma move up toward the surface?
Q36: What type of igneous rock forms when lava solidifies?
Q37: What happens to most magma?
Q38: Which choice is not produced by volcanic eruptions?
Q39: Igneous rocks that form from magma that crystallizes beneath the surface are called
____.
After answering the above question, click on the Main Menu button, then click on How Sedimentary
Rocks Form and answer the following questions.
Q40: What kind of weathering produces a talus slope?
Q41: What is the difference between mechanical and chemical weathering?
Q42: What part of a water molecule has a positive charge?
Q43: How does carbonic acid form?
Q44: What type of minerals form when feldspar reacts with acid?
Q45: What type of rock can these minerals then form?
Q46: What happens to quartz when granite weathers?
Q47: In what 4 places does erosion deposit sediments?
Q48: What 2 processes cause lithification?
Q49: Frost wedging is a form of
weathering.
Q50: What will increase the effects of chemical weathering?
Q51: Write the correct answer (A, B, C, or D) in the space for the following questions.
_____ Chemical weathering alters the chemical structure of a mineral by
.
_____ Which of the 4 minerals is very resistant to weathering?
_____ Which of the 4 minerals is most soluble?
_____ Which of the 4 choices is not one of the main products of weathering?
After answering the above question, click on the Main Menu button, and then click on Metamorphic
Rocks are Changed Rocks. Then answer the following questions.
Q52: What type of rock does granite metamorphosize into? Shale? Slate?