MINERALS EXERCISE

Answers to most of the following questions are located at the Mineral Gallery link.

1. (1 pt) What is the largest class of minerals?

2. (1 pt) What subclass of silicates includes muscovite & biotite?

3. (1 pt) What is a common use of quartz? (Note that in the Mineral Gallery link, quartz is said to be the most common mineral, but that is correct only if feldspar is subdivided into many distinct species - feldspar is much more common than quartz in the earth's crust)

4. (1 pt) To which class of minerals does halite belong?

5. (1 pt) In what type of environment is halite found?

6. (1 pt) Galena has the same structure as what other mineral that we've studied in lab?

7. (1 pt) What is a common use of galena?

8. (1 pt) Garnets are found in what type of rock?

9. (1 pt) What is the gem variety of olivine called?

10. (1 pt) From lecture, or from the book, where inside the earth is olivine most abundant?