Answer the following questions in about 30 words: What is a mineral?

Contemporary India-II

Book: Contemporary India-II

Chapter: 5. Minerals and Energy Resources

Subject: Social Science - Class 10^th

Q. No. 2 of Exercises

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Answer the following questions in about 30 words:
What is a mineral?

Mineral is a homogenous, naturally occurring substance with a distinguishable internal structure. Minerals are found in rocks and alike structures. Over 2000 minerals have been identified till yet. The hardest mineral is diamond and the softest is talc.

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Chapter Exercises

Exercises

Activity

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Which one of the following minerals is formed by decomposition of rocks, leaving a residual mass of weathered materials?

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Koderma, in Jharkhand is the leading producer of which one of the following minerals?

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Minerals are deposited and accumulated in the strata of which of the following rocks?

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Which one of the following minerals is contained, in the Monazite sand?

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Answer the following questions in about 30 words:
Distinguish between the following in not more than 30 words.

(a) ferrous and non-ferrous minerals.

(b) conventional and non-conventional sources of energy

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Answer the following questions in about 30 words:
What is a mineral?

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Answer the following questions in about 30 words:
How are minerals formed in igneous and metamorphic rocks?

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Answer the following questions in about 30 words:
Why do we need to conserve mineral resources?

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Answer the following questions in about 120 words.
Describe the distribution of coal in India.

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Answer the following questions in about 120 words.
Why do you think that solar energy has a bright future in India?