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    Minerals are solid, naturally occurring substances that have a crystalline structure and definite chemical composition. They are the building blocks that make up rocks and are mostly found in the geosphere. Some key properties of minerals include hardness, cleavage, crystal structure, and streak. Minerals are important as they are used in making various accessories, gadgets, tiles, and other items. They should be conserved by recycling materials where possible and avoiding waste.

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    Minerals are solid, naturally occurring substances that have a crystalline structure and definite chemical composition. They are the building blocks that make up rocks and are mostly found in the geosphere. Some key properties of minerals include hardness, cleavage, crystal structure, and streak. Minerals are important as they are used in making various accessories, gadgets, tiles, and other items. They should be conserved by recycling materials where possible and avoiding waste.

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    Minerals are solid, naturally occurring substances that have a crystalline structure and definite chemical composition. They are the building blocks that make up rocks and are mostly found in the geosphere. Some key properties of minerals include hardness, cleavage, crystal structure, and streak. Minerals are important as they are used in making various accessories, gadgets, tiles, and other items. They should be conserved by recycling materials where possible and avoiding waste.

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    QUIZ NO. 3 11.

    What do you call the property of the mineral to


    MINERALS resist scratching?
    a) Hardness c. Fracture
    1. Quartz can break other than along planes of b) Cleavage d. Ductility
    cleavage. What property of minerals is shown in 12. What can scratch Diamond?
    this situation? a) Talc c. Quartz
    a) Cleavage c. Hardness b) Topaz d. Corundum
    b) Fracture d. Streak 13. What is the importance of minerals?
    2. Some minerals like mica has surfaces with a) Used in making accessories
    planes of weak bonds in the crystals. Thus, its b) Used in making gadgets
    crystals can be peeled like layers of onion. What c) Used in home decors
    is the property exhibited by mica? d) All of the above
    a) Cleavage c. Hardness 14. What do you call the true color of a mineral
    b) Fracture d. Tenacity based on its powdered form?
    3. What are the building blocks of rocks and it is a) Cleavage c. Tenacity
    mostly found in the Geosphere? b) Fracture d. Streak
    a) elements c. ore 15. What do you call the repeating patterns of
    b) minerals d. soil minerals?
    4. What is the property of minerals that reflects a) Opaque c. Luster
    light on its surface? b) Transparent d. Hardness
    a) color c. luster 16. Which of the following is not one of the uses of
    b) crystal structure d. streak minerals?
    5. What is a carbonate mineral that occurs in a a) Decorations c. accessories
    different crystal form and is less common than b) Making floor tiles d. Vitamins
    either calcite or dolomite? 17. Which of the following could scratch quartz?
    a) aragonite c. gypsum a) Diamond c. Talc
    b) calcite d. silica b) Calcite d. Apatite
    6. What constitutes the size, shape and 18. Minerals are solid, organic, naturally occurring
    arrangement of mineral grains in a rock? and contain crystalline formation.
    a) cement c. porosity a) True c. Either A or B
    b) permeable origin d. texture b) False d. None of the above
    7. Which of the following is not a characteristic of a 19. Minerals are unlimited.
    mineral?
    a) True c. Either A or B
    a) crystal structure C. organic
    b) False d. None of the above
    b) naturally occurring D. solid
    20. How would you conserve the use of minerals?
    8. What refers to the tendency for a mineral to
    a) Recycle the tiles
    break along flat surfaces?
    b) Avoid wasting chalk
    a) cleavage c. ductility
    c) Avoid using rocks-containing minerals as
    b) hardness d. tenacity
    wall decors
    9. What is the solid form of a mineral produced by
    d) All of the above
    a repeating pattern of atoms?
    a) crystal c. element
    b) density d. fracture
    10. What mineral is called “fool’s gold’?
    a) Sulfur c. Pyrite
    b) Gold d. Hematite

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