1. Identify the components of the following building block of most minerals.

+ Correct: A is silicon, B is oxygen

2. What is the luster of the mineral illustrated in the following photograph?

+ Correct: glassy

3. The silicon-oxygen tetrahedron is a complex ion.

- Incorrect: false

4. Which of the minerals illustrated in the following photograph exhibits cubic

cleavage?
+ Correct: center

5. The ratio of silicon atoms to oxygen atoms is the same in each of the
various silicate structures.
+ Correct: false

6. Most rocks are aggregates of minerals.

+ Correct: true

7. The most common group of rock-forming minerals is the __________.

+ Correct: silicates

8. Which one of the following is NOT included in the definition of a mineral?

+ Correct: unordered internal structure

9. Which one of the following is NOT a property used to identify minerals?

- Incorrect: hardness

10. All ferromagnesian minerals contain one or both of these elements:

+ Correct: iron, magnesium

11. Which of these mineral properties may be of minimal value in identifying

the mineral quartz?
- Incorrect: crystal form

12. Granite is a common mineral.

+ Correct: false

13. This mineral exhibits cleavage.

+ Correct: false

14. Which of these silicate minerals exhibits a sheet structure?

- Incorrect: quartz

15. The two major groups of silicate minerals are the ferromagnesian silicates
and the nonferromagnesian silicates.
- Incorrect: false