Who wants to be a SCIENCE MILLIONAIRE? Minerals of the Earth’s Crust!

Who wants to be aSCIENCE

MILLIONAIRE?

Minerals of the Earth’s Crust!

A: B:Fluorite Diamond

#1What is the hardest mineral on Mohs

Hardness Scale?

C: D:Calcite Chuck Norris

Diamond

A: B:Streak Shine

#2What term refers to the way light reflects

off of a surface?

C: D:Luminosity Luster

Luster

A: B:fluorescence radioactivity

#3What is the property of some minerals

that causes it to glow under UV light?

C: D:magnetism optics

Fluorescence

A: B:They form in nature They are solids

#4Which of the following is not a

characteristic of minerals?

C: D:They are organic They have a crystalline

structure

They are

organic

A: B:fracture cleavage

#5Conchoidal is a type of which

of the following?

C: D:streak Nonsilicate mineral

fracture

A: B:pluton metamorphic rock

#6What is the name for a large tear-drop

shaped body formed from magma?

C: D:gemstone pegmatite

Pegmatite

A: B:atom compound

#7What is a substance made of two or more

elements that have been joined chemically?

C: D:element molecule

Compound

A: B:Surface mining Quarries

C: D:Subsurface mining Drift Mining

#8What general term describes the type of

mining that would be employed in a strip mine?

Surface Mining

A: B:plutons hot water solution

#9What type of mineral formation would occur

from a change in temperature, pressure, or chemical make up?

C: D:Metamorphic rock None of the above

Metamorphic

rock

A: B:oxides Native elements

#10Which of the following is not a class of

nonsilicate mineral?

C: D:sulfides feldspars

Feldspars

A: B:Calcite Halite

#11 An optical property of which of the

following minerals will cause a double image?

C: D:Gypsum Fluorite

Calcite

A: B:Length and width Mass and weight

#12What are the measurements required

to find the density of an object?

C: D:Mass and volume Weight and height

Mass and Volume

A: B:Metamorphic rock Limestone

#13In which environment would you most likely

find halite?

C: D:Evaporating salt water Plutons

Evaporating salt water

A: B:resolution restitution

#14What is the process in which land

used for miningIs returned to its original state called?

C: D:reparations reclamation

Reclamation

A: B:56 110

#15If an element has an atomic number of 56 and

An atomic mass of 165.6, how many protons does it have?

C: D:109.4 None of the above

56

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