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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