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Minerals Module: Quiz and Concepts

This document contains an activity and assessment on minerals. It includes multiple choice questions about minerals and geologists. It also rates minerals on the Mohs hardness scale from 1 being the least hard to 10 being the most hard. The document lists symmetry elements of crystals, physical properties of minerals, common rock-forming minerals, and definitions of terms like mineralogy, mineral, and crystallography.

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Minerals Module: Quiz and Concepts

This document contains an activity and assessment on minerals. It includes multiple choice questions about minerals and geologists. It also rates minerals on the Mohs hardness scale from 1 being the least hard to 10 being the most hard. The document lists symmetry elements of crystals, physical properties of minerals, common rock-forming minerals, and definitions of terms like mineralogy, mineral, and crystallography.

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MODULE 2: Minerals

ACTIVITIY/ASSESSMENT

Part I: Multiple Choice


B 1. Geologist who studies fossils is known as
a. seismologist b. paleontologist c. petrologist d. archeologist

D 2. The tendency of a crystallized mineral to break along certain directions yielding more
or less smooth, plane surface is ____.
a. fracture b. hardness c. tenacity d. cleavage

D 3. The tendency of a crystallized mineral to break along certain directions yielding more
or less smooth, plane surface is ____.
a. fracture b. hardness c. tenacity d. cleavage

C 4. Mineralogy Deals with


a. mode of occurrence
b. color of mineral
c. properties, formation and occurrence of minerals
d. types of minerals

C 5. It is a property of minerals that describes the ratio of the weight of the mineral by the
weight of an equal volume of water.
a. density b. unit weight c. specific gravity d. weight

C 6. It is term in geology as naturally occurring and coherent aggregate of one or more


minerals.
a. soil b. accessory minerals c. rock d. minerals

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Part II: Rate the following according to the Mohs Hardness Scale. 1 being the least hard to
10 being the most hard mineral.

MOHS HARDNESS
SCALE

Mineral Name Scale

Gypsum 2

Calcite 3

Apatite 5

Diamond 10

Topaz 8

Orthoclase 6

Quartz 7

Corundum 9

Fluorite 4

Talc 1

Part III:
Item 1 to 4: Four (4) Symmetry Elements of Crystals
 Rotational symmetry
 Mirror symmetry
 Center of symmetry

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 Roto inversion symmetry
Item 5 to 9: Four (4) physical properties of minerals
 Streak
 Hardness
 Color
 Luster
Item 10 to 14: Five (5) among several most common Rock forming Minerals
 Quartz
 Amphiboles
 Micas
 Olivine
 Garnet

Glassy Texture Item 15: Sometimes called vitreous texture


Mineralogy Item 16: It is the study of minerals, their crystalline and chemical structures, and
their properties.
Mineral Item 17: A naturally occurring, inorganic, solid, crystalline substance which has a fixed
structure and a chemical composition which is either fixed or which may vary within certain
defined limits.
Crystallography Item 18: This refers to the experimental science of determining the arrangement
of atoms in crystalline solids.

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