Minerals RMS. Mineral ID Rocks Soil

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1 Minerals Moh Minerals RMS Mineral ID Rocks Soil

2 What is a naturally occurring, inorganic solid with orderly crystalline structure, and a definite chemical composition?

3 Why is ice in a glacier considered to be a mineral but water from a glacier is not?

4 A mineral is inorganic which means that it contains which of the following?

5 Why is concrete not considered a mineral?

6 According to the Mohs scale, what is the hardest known mineral?

7 The softest mineral on the Mohs hardness scale is what?

8 Which test is generally the least useful in identifying minerals?

9 What would happen if you rubbed a piece of fluorite against a piece of feldspar?

10 An unknown mineral scratches apatite and is scratched by corundum. What can you conclude about the mineral hardness?

11 If you wanted to scratch diamond what would you use??

12 If you had a mineral with a black streak and hardness greater than 5.5, what could it be?

13 If you had a non-metallic mineral that was green and could not scratch pyrite, it would be which of the following?

14 Which single property would be the best to determine if you had a sample of amphibole or pyroxene?

15 Which of the following is true of quartz? Which mineral on this chart can scratch quartz?

16 Which physical property would be the most accurate to use to determine the difference between pyrite and magnetite

17 The heat that changes a rock into metamorphic rock comes from where?

18 Which type of rock has large crystals because of its slow cooling process?

19 What produces igneous rock?

20 What is the difference between foliation and stratification?

21 Which rock cycle answers are incorrect? cooling Heat and pressure Weathering and erosion melting Heat and pressure Weathering and erosion Compaction/Cementation Weathering and erosion melting

22 Name 4 types of weathering.

23 Name 4 types of soil conservation techniques.

24 Which continent has the worst degraded soil? Which has the least degraded soil?

25 Name 2 reasons soil is so valuable.

26 If I am a soil with 40% clay, 10% silt, and 50% sand, what type am I?

27 Minerals Moh Minerals Mineral ID Rocks Soil 1000 What is a naturally occurring, inorganic solid with orderly crystalline structure, and a definite chemical composition? 1000 According to the Mohs scale, what is the hardest known mineral? 1000 If you had a mineral with a black streak and hardness greater than 5.5, what could it be? 1000 The heat that changes a rock into metamorphic rock comes from where? 1000 Name 4 types of weathering? 2000 Why is ice in a glacier considered to be a mineral but water from a glacier is not? 2000 The softest mineral on the Mohs hardness scale is what? 2000 If you had a non-metallic mineral that was green and could not scratch pyrite, it would be which of the following? 2000 Which type of rock has large crystals because of its slow cooling process? 2000 Name 4 types of soil conservation techniques? 3000 A mineral is inorganic which means that it contains what? 3000 What would happen if you rubbed a piece of fluorite against a piece of feldspar? 3000 Which single property would be the best to determine if you had a sample of amphibole or pyroxene? 3000 What produces igneous rock? 3000 Which continent has the worst degraded soil? Which has the least degraded soil? 4000 Why is concrete not considered a mineral? 4000 An unknown mineral scratches apatite and is scratched by corundum. What can you conclude about the mineral hardness? 4000 Which mineral on this chart can scratch quartz? 4000 What is the difference between foliation and stratification? 4000 Name 2 reasons soil is so valuable? 5000 Which test is generally the least useful in identifying minerals? 5000 If you wanted to scratch diamond what would you use?? 5000 Which of the many quantitative tests would be the most accurate to use to determine the difference between pyrite and magnetite? 5000 Which rock cycle answers are incorrect? 5000 If I am a soil with 40% clay, 10% silt, and 50% sand, what type am I?

28 Minerals Moh Minerals Mineral ID Rocks Soil Mineral 1000 diamond 1000 pyrite 1000 magma Freeze-thaw Waves Biological Chemical (acid rain) 2000 Ice is a solid talc amphibole 2000 Intrusive igneous 2000 Contour plowing Terracing Crop rotation Tillage Wind break 3000 Nothing that is or has been living Flourite would be scratched by feldspar hardness Volcanic eruptions and pooled magma 3000 Europe is worst North America is best Manmade Hardness between 5-8; note that equal hardness will scratch each other that s why it isn t 9! 4000 Quartz can scratch itself Foliation aligned grains in metamorphic rock while stratification is layering in sedimentary rock Plants need it to grow. Takes a long time to replenish (1 in 1000 years) Color 5000 diamond 5000 density Metamorphic/igneous magma is just melting. Igneous/Sedimentary metamorphic should be heat and pressure 5000 Sandy Clay.

1. A solid material made up of one or more minerals or grains or other substances, including the remains of once-living things is a.

1. A solid material made up of one or more minerals or grains or other substances, including the remains of once-living things is a. 2. A solid, inorganic material that forms naturally on or beneath Earth