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Discerningly Versed - Effective Iterative Learning Quiz Questions - Minerals III
Discerningly Versed - Effective Iterative Learning


Around how many minerals are known

 

4000
10 000
2000
1000

 The Fersman Mineralogical Museum, one of the worlds largest mineral collections is found in

 

Washington
Oslo
Adelaide
St Petersburg
The study of minerals is

 

Mining
Geology
Mineralogy
Geophysics

 Which mineral type found on earth's surface are importantly the ores from which metals are mined

 

Oxides
Phosphates
Sulphates
Carbonates
Which geologist published a System of Mineralogy, which is still used today ?

 

Parker Cleaveland
George Jarvis Brush
James Dwight Dana
Benjamin Silliman

 Graphite, which is soft & Diamond which is hard are both carbon, but differ due to

 

Crystal Structure
Impurity levels
Carbon isotope
Electron numbers
Which mineral is known as Hydrogen Oxide ?

 

Rock Salt
Water
Ice
Salt

 Two or more chemicals with the same composition but different crystal structures are known as

 

Polyphones
Polymorphs
Polygons
Polyglots
Which of these does NOT apply to true minerals ?

 

Organic
Inorganic
Solid
Crystal Structure

 The largest mineral group with over 500 members are

 

Carbonates
Halides
Sulphates
Silicates


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