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Here are 10 general questions about minerals.  Provide an answer for each question and then click SUBMIT.

 

What scale is used to measure the hardness of a mineral?

What do we call the mineral property that is the color of the powdered mineral?

What is the hardest mineral in this list?

When a mineral breaks along a straight surface, we call that property...

Which of the following minerals would bubble if put in a weak acid?

What mineral could this be? It has a hardness of 7. It breaks with curved surfaces.

Mica is a family of minerals. Which of these two minerals belong the the Mica family?

What are the names of two very soft minerals?

What properties of gold would help you to identify it?

What property of a mineral is very unreliable for identification?

Minerals Quiz
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