Question 1

Which statement is NOT true?

Accepted Answer

A mineral can be made by a living thing

Answer

A mineral can only form in nature

Answer

A mineral has an orderly arrangement of atoms or ions

Question 2

Which substance is NOT A mineral?

Accepted Answer

a ruby made in a lab

Answer

a salt crystal that forms in the ocean

Answer

basalt formed from cooling lave

Question 3

What is a crystal?

Accepted Answer

a solid in which the atom form a repeated pattern

Answer

any solid that forms on Earth

Answer

a solid in which atoms are arranged randomly

Question 4

What determines the shape of a mineral crystal?

Accepted Answer

the angles  between the atoms in the minerals

Answer

the size of the atoms in the mineral

Answer

the way in which the mineral form

Question 5

What are silicates?

Accepted Answer

minerals that have silicon and oxygen

Answer

minerals that do not form crystals

Answer

minerals that are made in laboratories

Question 6

Which mineral might form from hot fluids deep within the Earth?

Accepted Answer

gold

Answer

garnet

Answer

halite

Question 7

Which mineral might form when seawater evaporates?

Accepted Answer

halite

Answer

garnet

Answer

gold

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