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The document is a collection of multiple choice questions about rocks and minerals. It covers topics like the differences between rocks and minerals, the properties used to identify minerals, how different types of rocks are formed, and the rock cycle.

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The document is a collection of multiple choice questions about rocks and minerals. It covers topics like the differences between rocks and minerals, the properties used to identify minerals, how different types of rocks are formed, and the rock cycle.

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1. Which is a TRUE statement about rocks and minerals?

A. Minerals are made of one or more rocks.

B. Rocks are made of one or more minerals.

C. Rocks are living things and minerals are non-living.

D. Minerals are living things and rocks are non-living

2. While walking in his backyard, Josh picked up an object that he thought was a rock. When he
dropped, it broke. He noticed that there were crystals inside. Now he is not sure if the object was a rock.
What did Josh find? He picked up.

A. He found a rock, and the crystals inside are minerals.

B. He found a mineral, and the crystals inside are rocks.

C. He found a rock, and the crystals inside rocks, too.

D. He found a mineral, and the crystals inside are made of mixture of rocks.

3. He found a mineral, and the crystals inside are made of mixture of rocks.

A. It is softer than both copper and steel.

B. It is harder than steel, but softer than copper.

C. It is harder than both copper and steel.

D. It is harder than copper, but softer than steel.

4. Charles want to identify a mineral. He rubs a corner of the mineral across a white tile and records the
color of the mark. What property is Charles testing?
A. Cleavage

B. Color

C. Luster

D. Streak

5. Sir Nestor is investigating an unknown mineral. As a safety precaution, what should he NEVER do in
this investigation?

A. Use another mineral to scratch it.

B. See if the mineral leaves a streak.

C. Compares its taste to another mineral.

D. Check to see if the mineral is magnetic

6. Josh continued to look in his backyard and he found these four different rocks. What can be conclude
about the four rocks he found?

A. They all weigh the same.

B. They all have a certain chemical makeup and physical structure.

C. They are all made of up minerals.

D. They all have the same texture.

7. Ms. Apostol did a demonstration with her class to begin their study of rocks and minerals.She explain
that the cookie was like a rock. Then,she broke the cookie to remove some of the chocolate chips. What
did the chocolate represent?

A. Fossils
B. Gems

C. Minerals

D. Rock

8. Julia scratches a mineral with penny. Why should she do this?

A. To feel the mineral’s texture.

B. To see if the penny and the mineral are the same color.

C.To figure out how hard the mineral is.

D. To compare the shape of the penny to the mineral.

9. Dave and Rommel observed a rock made up of many small particles of sand arrange in a light-colored
layers and dark-colored layers. Which of the statements describe how this type of rock most likely
formed?

A. River sediments were slowly compacted and cemented together

B. Clay was crushed and frozen under a glacier

C. Mineral deposit hardened into solid rock in underground caves

D. Lava from a volcano cooled quickly in water

10. Moh’s scale of hardness showing the approximate hardness of some common objects. In which
statements is best supported by this scale?

A. A fingernail will scratch calcite, but not quartz

B. A fingernail will scratch quartz, but not calcite

C. A piece of glass can be scratch by quartz, but not by calcite

D. A piece of glass can be scratch by calcite, but not by quartz


11. Which of the following BEST describe the cause of different kinds of igneous rocks to have different
size crystals?

A. Magma that cools slowly and forms large crystals

B. Lava that cools very quickly may give crystal time to form

C. Magma that reaches Earth’s as lava cools less rapid and forms small crystal

D. Lava that cools down slowly in occurring there allows small crystals to form

12. Ms. Emmalyn get some minerals from the river. She wants to identify what sample of the mineral
that she got from the river. What is the best way she NEED to do, to determine if a mineral sample is
calcite or quartz?

A. Observe the color of the mineral.

B. Place the mineral near a magnet.

C. Place a drop of acid on the mineral.

D. Measure the mass of the mineral.

13. Baby Ana obtains a cup of quartz sand from a beach. A salt water solution is poured into the sand
and allowed to evaporate. The mineral residue from the saltwater solution cements the sand grains
together , in which of the following BEST describe the forming a material that is most similar in origin to

A. An extrusive igneous rocks

B. An intrusive igneous rocks

C. A classic sedimentary rock

D. A foliated metamorphic rock


14. Which of the following is NOT true about Rock cycle?

A. Rock Cycle is the process by which rocks are constantly being formed, worn down, and formed again.

B. Weathering is constantly breaking down rocks into smaller rocks and sediments. At the same time,
new rocks are being formed by heat and pressure and by melting and cooling.

C. Rock cycle is the process in which happen in igneous rock into weathering and erosion into burial into
deposition into cementation and into sedimentary rock.

D. Rock cycle is the process in which are continuously transformed between three types igneous,
sedimentary and metamorphi

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