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6th Grade Chapter Test Minerals

  1. What is a narrow channel or slab of a mineral that is sharply different from the surrounding rock?
    vein
  2. Friedrich Mohs invented a system ________________________________________________.
    to describe and compare hardness of minerals.
  3. The purpose of heating iron ore to a very high temperature in a blast furnace is _______________________________________________.
    to heat the iron so that it separates from other elements in the ore.
  4. Hard, colorful minerals that have a brilliant or glassy luster are ___________.
    gemstones
  5. Steel is an example of a useful ____________.
    alloy
  6. A mineral that splits apart easily along flat surfaces has the property called __________.
    cleavage
  7. Color alone cannot be used to identify a mineral because ___________________________________________________________.
    only a few minerals always have their own characteristic color.
  8. Earthy, shiny, waxy, metallic, and pearly are terms used to  describe a mineral's _____________________________________________.
    streak
  9. The size of a mineral's crystals depends on what?
    the rate of cooling of the magma or solution from which the mineral formed
  10. Which of the following is NOT one of the six types of crystal shapes?
    metallic
  11. In a process called _____________, an ore is melted to separate the useful metal from other elements on the ore.
    smelting
  12. The property of ____________ is the mass of the mineral sample per unit volume.
    density
  13. A(n) __________ mine is used when ore deposits occur in veins.
    shaft
  14. Table salt is made from deposits of the mineral  ___________.
    halite
  15. A rock that contains a metal or economically useful mineral is called a(n) ___________.
    ore
  16. A ___________ is anyone who searches for an ore deposit.
    prospector
  17. Minerals form when a hot water solution cools and the minerals ______________.
    crystallize
  18. The mineral __________ is used in the making of glass.
    quartz
  19. A substance is ___________ if it did not arise from materials that were once part of a living thing.
    inorganic
  20. The vast majority of minerals are ____________.
    compounds
  21. Silver and gold have the same ___________.
    hardness
  22. ___________ is considered "fool's gold" because it has the same color and luster as gold.
    pyrite
  23. What test could you do to make sure a mineral sample was gold instead of "fool's gold"?
    a streak test
  24. How do minerals form in cooling magma?
    The magma slowly cools and hardens and this forms large crystals.
  25. How do minerals form along a shore of a lake or sea?
    Minerals form as salt water evaporates at the shore.
  26. How do minerals form in hot water solutions?
    Minerals form as metals dissolve in hot water solutions and come out of the solution and crystalize forming veins.
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6th Grade Chapter Test Minerals
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Study guide for a test on minerals
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