Make sure you have understood everything in this section (Lessons E6, E7, E8, and E9).
Use the Self-Check below, and the Self-Check & Lesson Review Tips to guide your learning.
This is also a good time to visit your Section 2 Checklist to make sure you have completed all the recommended learning activities.

Unit E Section 2 Self-Check

Instructions


Complete the following 6 steps. Don't skip steps – if you do them in order, you will confirm your understanding of this section and create a study bank for the future.

  1. DOWNLOAD the self-check quiz by clicking here.

  2. ANSWER all the questions on the downloaded quiz in the spaces provided. Think carefully before typing your answers. Review the lessons of this section if you need to. Save your quiz when you are done.

  3. COMPARE your answers with the suggested "Self-Check Quiz Answers" below. WAIT! You didn't skip step 2, did you? It's very important to carefully write out your own answers before checking the suggested answers.

  4. REVISE your quiz answers if you need to. If you answered all the questions correctly, you can skip this step. Revise means to change, fix, and add extra notes if you need to. This quiz is NOT FOR MARKS, so it is perfectly OK to correct any mistakes you made. This will make your self-check quiz an excellent study tool you can use later.

  5. SAVE your quiz to a folder on your computer, or to your Private Files. That way you will know where it is for later studying.

  6. CHECK with your teacher if you need to. If after completing all these steps you are still not sure about the questions or your answers, you should ask for more feedback from your teacher. To do this, post in the Course Questions Forum, or send your teacher an email. In either case, attach your completed quiz and ask; "Can you look at this quiz and give me some feedback please?" They will be happy to help you!

Self-Check Time!

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Self-Check Quiz Answers

Click each of the suggested answers below, and carefully compare your answers to the suggested answers.

If you have not done the quiz yet – STOP – and go back to step 1 above. Do not look at the answers without first trying the questions.

This unknown mineral is muscovite. Muscovite has very similar properties to halite (shown below) except that muscovite can peel into sheets and halite tastes salty. To confirm this is muscovite, you should test to see if it peels into sheets along its cleavage plane. To confirm that it is not halite, it should not have a salty taste (WARNING: Taste testing in science should be done only by trained or supervised scientists).


This unknown mineral is either potassium feldspar or plagioclase feldspar. Not enough information is given to know for sure. Because plagioclase feldspar has small grooves on its surface, you should examine the sample with a magnifying glass or microscope to see if these grooves are present. If they are, it is probably plagioclase feldspar. If not, it is probably potassium feldspar.
The four main types of fossil fuels found in Alberta are bitumen (oil sands), natural gas, oil, and coal. Fossil fuels come from formations of sedimentary rock that consist mostly of dead plant and animal remains that have large amounts of carbon and energy in them. Because of these organic remains trapped in layers of rock, we refer to these as “fossil” fuels.
Decide if your find is a mineral or a rock. Minerals are pure substances although they can sometimes look like they are made of various materials. The bands of colours in this specimen mean likely that various types of materials are in it. It is probably a rock and not a mineral. In general, however, rocks are not pretty like this sample is. The smooth, polished look caused by erosion of running water of a stream probably has changed it drastically from its original form.

A rock that has layers or bands in it is not igneous. It must be either sedimentary or metamorphic. Sedimentary rocks are very common near streams, but the bands on this rock look quite thin and wavy. Some strange shapes and vertical lines are in the rock as well. This is very likely a metamorphic rock.

When you get home, you could research on the Internet for your find. You might discover this rock is the rare Tiger’s Eye, a gemstone metamorphic rock often used in jewellery.


Your answer to this question can vary, but it should include all three rock types and a description of the changes that occur between the types. Your response as if you were the grain of sand should be interesting!
  • A grain of sand can be a mineral (often quartz) or a fragment of any type of rock.
  • A common starting place is a beach. A common start would be for the grain of sand to become part of a sedimentary rock (probably sandstone) over millions of years by being buried beneath many layers of sediment in an environment near water.
  • A nice bonus would be to mention fossil fuels existing nearby. Sandstone is a common type of rock that traps fossil fuels such as oil.
  • A magma chamber pushing through the crust might move close to the sandstone and turn it into the metamorphic rock quartzite.
  • The grain of sand will melt when the magma’s heat is close enough. The minerals in the sand grain become part of the magma.
  • The magma could rise up and flow out of an erupting volcano to form an extrusive igneous rock on a cliff above a beach.
  • Weathering and erosion could break the igneous rock slowly, and a small portion could wash away into a river, and eventually return to a nearby beach. … and the cycle starts again!