Mineral, Rocks and mining Method
Mineral and Rock Quiz
Test your knowledge on minerals, rocks, and mining methods with our comprehensive quiz! Whether you're a beginner or an expert, this quiz will challenge your understanding.
- 52 engaging questions
- Multiple choice format
- Learn and discover new facts about geology
Resistance of Mineral to abrasion
Tenacity
Hardness
Streak
Malleability
The ability of a mineral to break along planes of weak bonding
Cleavage
Fracture
Diaphaneity
Streal
The appearance of the surface of a mineral when it does not break along cleavage planes
Fracture
Crystal Shape
Color
Cleavage
The property by an object of producing different sensations on the eye as a result of the way object reflect or emit light
Color
Streak
Effervescence
Taste
A play of colors or colored reflections exhibited especially by labradorite
Labradorescence
Triboluminescence
Thermoluminescence
Fluorescence
Exposure to ultraviolet light causes a mineral to emit visible light
Fluorescence
Labradorescence
Triboluminescence
Thermoluminescence
Emits visible light when heated
Thermoluminescence
Triboluminescence
Labradorescence
Fluorescence
Emits visible light when struck or rubbed
Triboluminescence
Fluorescence
Labradorescence
Thermoluminescence
The color of minerals in powdered form.
Streak
Color
Fracture
Luster
Quality and intensity of reflected light exhibited by the mineral
Luster
Color
Streak
Fracture
Generally opaque and exhibit a resplendent shine similar to a polished metal
Metallic
Non-metallic
Vitreous (glassy), adamantine (brilliant/diamond like), resinous, silky, pearl, dull (earthy), greasy
Non-metallic
Metallic
It is the ratio of the weight of a mineral to the weight of an equal volume of water
Specific Gravity
Effervescence
Luster
Tenacity
Intergrowth of two or more crystals of the same mineral
Twinning
Diaphaneity
Streak
Crystal Shape
Bubbling seen where a carbonate mineral reacts with an acid
Effervescence
Taste
Diaphaneity
Odor
Property of a mineral to be attracted to a hand-magnet
Magnetism
Diaphaneity
Specific Gravity
Color
Relative ability of minerals to allow light to pass through them
Diaphaneity
Hardness
Crystal Shape
Fracture
A property of certain materials which results in a large observed magnetic permeability, and in many cases a large magnetic coercivity
Ferromagnetic
Paramagnetic
Diamagnetic
Materials are weakly attracted by an externally applied magnetic field
Paramagnetic
Diamagnetic
Ferromagnetic
Applied magnetic field creates an induced magnetic field in them in the opposite direction
Diamagnetic
Ferromagnetic
Paramagnetic
most abundant minerals that make up most of the rocks of the Earth’s crust.
Rock-forming minerals
Economic Minerals
Le Mineral
Monoclinic Mineral
Minerals used in the manufacturing of products
Economic Minerals
Rock-forming minerals
Le Mineral
Tetragonal Mineral
Forms when magma or lava cool to a solid form, either glass or masses of tightly intergrown mineral crystals
Igneous Rocks
Sedimentary Rocks
Metamorphic Rocks
Formed at or near the surface of the Earth,when mineral crystals and clasts of plants, animals, or rocks are compressed or naturally cemented together
Sedimentary Rocks
Igneous Rocks
Metamorphic Rocks
Process that leads to changes in the mineral content, texture, and sometimes the chemical composition of rocks
Metamorphic Rocks
Igneous Rocks
Sedimentary Rocks
Takes place where preexisting rock is subjected to new conditions, usually elevated temperatures and pressures, that are significantly different from those in which it initially formed
Metamorphic Rocks
Igneous Rocks
Sedimentary Rocks
Completely or partly molten rocks inside the Earth’s crust
Magma
Lava
Magma that reached the surface
Lava
Magma
If they had a long time to grow in a slowly cooling magma.
Crystals are large
Crystals are small
Formed quickly in rapidly cooling lava
Crystals are small
Crystals are large
Formed from magma and tends to take a long time to solidify into rock
Intrusive or Plutonic
Extrusive or Volcanic
Formed from lava and tends to solidify quickly.
Extrusive or Volcanic
Intrusive or Plutonic
granitic: >65% silica, generally light-colored
Felsic
Intermediate
Mafic
Ultramafic
Andesitic: 55-65% silica, generally medium colored (medium gray)
Intermediate
Mafic
Felsic
Ultramafic
Basaltic: 45-55% silica, usually dark colored
Mafic
Ultramafic
Felsic
Intermediate
The overall appearance of rock based on size, shape and crystal arrangement
Texture
Shape
Form
Structure
Produced when magma cools slowly at depth
Phaneritic
Aphanitic
Porphyritic
Pegmatitic
produced when lava cooled quickly on or near the Earth’s surface
Aphanitic
Phaneritic
Pegmatitic
Pyroclastic
These are rocks that have large crystals embedded in a matrix of smaller crystals
Porphyritic
Glassy
Vesicular
Pegmatic
Produced by very rapid cooling
Glassy
Pegmatic
Porphyritic
Vesicular
Produced from the debris of an explosive eruption.
Pyroclastic
Pegmatic
Aphanitic
Phaneritic
Air bubbles trapped inside
Vesicular
Glassy
Porphyritic
Aphanitic
Unusual large crystals
Pegmatitic
Aphanitic
Glassy
Porphyritic
The process of breaking down or dissolving rocks
Weathering
Erosion
Deposition
Lithification
The process by which the soil and rock particles are driven by a transport agent
Erosion
Deposition
Weathering
Lithification
The laying down of sediment carried by any transport agent
Deposition
Erosion
Weathering
Lithification
The process wherein the sediments are turned into sedimentary rocks
Lithification
Weathering
Erosion
Deposition
From the eroded parts of other rocks, volcanic origin and may have undergone some stages in the sedimentary processes could be classified as sedimentary rock
Clastic Sedimentary Rocks
Detrital Sedimentary Rocks
Non-clastic Sedimentary Rocks
Organic Sedimentary Rocks
Forms from the accumulation of materials that originated and is transported as solid particles derived from both chemical and mechanical weathering
Detrital Sedimentary Rocks
Organic Sedimentary Rocks
Non-clastic Sedimentary Rocks
Chemical Sedimentary Rocks
Evaporation and precipitation from solution or lithification of organic matter
Non-Clastic Sedimentary Rock
Organic Sedimentary Rocks
Detrital Sedimentary Rocks
Clastic Sedimentary Rocks
Forms when a soluble material produced by chemical weathering are precipitated by either organic or inorganic processes.
Chemical Sedimentary Rocks
Organic Sedimentary Rocks
Detrital Sedimentary Rocks
Clastic Sedimentary Rocks
Forms from the accumulation and lithification of organic debris, such as leaves, roots, and other plant or animal material.
Organic Sedimentary Rocks
Chemical Sedimentary Rocks
Non-clastic Sedimentary Rocks
Clastic Sedimentary Rocks
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