Chapter Quiz for "Chapter 3 - Matter and Minerals"

Scores for student "monito2"

12 out of 15 points. 80.0%
1. Which one of the following sets of two terms describes how a mineral respond
s to mechanical impact?
+ Correct: cleavage, fracture
2. What is the luster of the mineral illustrated in the following photograph?
+ Correct: glassy
3. Which of these silicate minerals exhibits a sheet structure?
+ Correct: muscovite
4. Identify the components of the following building block of most minerals.
+ Correct: A is silicon, B is oxygen
5. When minerals break evenly in more than one direction, cleavage is described
by the number of planes exhibited and the angles at which they meet.
+ Correct: true
6. Granite is a common mineral.
- Incorrect: true
7. A cubic centimeter of quartz and gold weighs 2.7 and about 20 grams respecti
vely. This indicates that __________.
+ Correct: gold has a much higher specific gravity than quartz
8. All minerals have a crystal form.
+ Correct: true
9. All silicate minerals contain which of the following two elements?
+ Correct: silicon, oxygen
10. The ratio of silicon atoms to oxygen atoms is the same in each of the vario
us silicate structures.
+ Correct: false
11. The silicon-oxygen tetrahedron is a complex ion.
+ Correct: true
12. The two major groups of silicate minerals are the ferromagnesian silicates
and the nonferromagnesian silicates.
- Incorrect: false
13. All ferromagnesian minerals contain one or both of these elements:
+ Correct: iron, magnesium
14. Which one of the following is NOT a silicate mineral?
+ Correct: calcite
15. Which one of the following is NOT a property used to identify minerals?
- Incorrect: hardness