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Grade 6 Minerals
What is the hardest mineral on the Mohs scale?
  1. talc
  2. copper
  3. apatite
  4. diamond
Grade 9 Minerals
The regular repeating arrangement of ionic bonds form                     .
  1. a covalent bond.
  2. a crystal.
  3. a covalent compound.
  4. an electrolyte.
Grade 9 Minerals
What is a mineral's streak?
  1. the resistance to being scratched
  2. the color of the mineral in powder form
  3. the way which a mineral reflects light
  4. the way a mineral reacts to hydrochloric acid
Grade 6 Minerals
Which special property does calcite have?
  1. magnetism
  2. double refraction
  3. reaction to acid
  4. salty taste
Grade 4 Minerals
What properties are used to classify minerals? Select all that apply.
  1. color
  2. luster
  3. hematite
  4. cleavage
  5. streak
  6. galena
  7. hardness
Grade 5 Minerals
Pyrite is the same as gold.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 5 Minerals
Which is usually better for identifying a mineral?
  1. Color is better than streak.
  2. Streak is better than color.
  3. Streak is as good as color.
  4. Streak and color are not properties of minerals.
Grade 4 Minerals
Which of the following is an example of how people use rocks and minerals?
  1. for building schools
  2. to make steel
  3. to make jewelry
  4. all of the above
Grade 6 Minerals
Which of these is NOT a physical property of a mineral?
  1. cleavage
  2. organic
  3. fracture
  4. hardness
Grade 8 Minerals
Quartz, feldspar, and Mica are silicate minerals. Silicate minerals contain atoms of silicon and oxygen and often other elements bonded together. Which of the following is TRUE about silicate minerals?
  1. They are pure elements.
  2. They are made up of compounds.
  3. They melt at very low temperatures.
  4. They are made up of only one kind of atom.
Grade 8 Minerals
The mineral galena tends to break into perfect cubes. Which mineral property does this describe?
  1. fracture
  2. cleavage
  3. crystal habit
  4. specific gravity
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