EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -Common minerals include quartz, feldspar, mica, amphibole, olivine, and calcite. A rock is an aggregate of one or more minerals, or a body of undifferentiated mineral matter. Common rocks include granite, basalt, limestone, and sandstone.

Detailed explanation-2: -Rocks are made up of different minerals, broken pieces of crystals, or broken pieces of rocks. Some rocks are made of the shells of once-living animals, or of compressed pieces of plants.

Detailed explanation-3: -A mineral is a solid formation that occurs naturally in the earth while a rock is a solid combination of more than one mineral formations which is also occurring naturally. A mineral has a unique chemical composition and is necessarily defined by its crystalline structure and shape.

Detailed explanation-4: -Composed of elements Minerals, like all matter, are made out of chemical elements. Elements are substances that are made up of only one kind of atom (remember the periodic table?). Elements have specific chemical and physical properties and cannot be broken down into other substances.

Detailed explanation-5: -Monomineralic rocks are rocks that are composed of only one mineral.