Ch. 2 Minerals Geojeopardy Matter Minerals Mineral Properties More Minerals Potpourri 100 200 300 400 500

Matter-100 A substance that cannot be broken down into simpler substances by chemical or physical means

Matter-100 What is an element? Home Page

Matter-200 On the periodic table, this number is the number of protons in the nucleus of the atom

What is the atomic number? Matter-200 What is the atomic number? Home Page

Matter-300 The charges and locations of the three atomic particles

Neutron, neutral, nucleus Electron, -, energy levels Matter-300 Proton, +, nucleus Neutron, neutral, nucleus Electron, -, energy levels Home Page

Matter-400 Atoms with the same number of protons but different numbers of neutrons are ____. Atoms that gain or lose electrons and become positively or negatively charged are ____.

Matter-400 What are… Isotopes Ions Home Page

Mineral Properties-500 2 examples of distinctive properties

Mineral Properties-500 What are: feel, how easily they are shaped, magnetic properties, double refraction, fizzing with HCl Home Page

Matter-500 _____ compounds are rigid solids with high melting and boiling points and are poor conductors of electricity in their solid states.

Matter-500 What is ionic? Home Page

Minerals-100 List three of the five requirements for a mineral to be a mineral.

Minerals-100 What are: 1)naturally occurring 2)solid substance 3)orderly crystalline structure 4)definite chemical composition 5)generally considered inorganic Home Page

Minerals-200 the most common group of minerals; made of the two most abundant minerals in earth’s crust (Oxygen and silicon)

Minerals-200 What are silicates? Home Page

Minerals-300 The mineral group that contains oxygen and one or more other elements (which are usually metals)

Minerals-300 What are oxides? Home Page

Minerals-500 List three of the four ways minerals can form.

Minerals-500 1)crystallization of magma 2)precipitation 3)pressure and temperature 4)hydrothermal solutions Home Page

Mineral Properties-100 On the Moh’s hardness scale, ____is 1 and ____is 10.

What is talc and diamond Mineral Properties-100 What is talc and diamond Home Page

Mineral Properties-300 The property of a mineral that is used to describe how light is reflected from the surface of a mineral.

Mineral Properties-300 What is luster? Home Page

Mineral Properties-400 Mica is an example of a mineral that shows simple ____as it has weak bonds in one direction and forms thin, flat sheets.

Mineral Properties-400 What is cleavage Home Page

Mineral Properties-200 Galena’s density if its volume is 2 cm3 and its mass is 15 g

Mineral Properties-200 What is 7.5g/cm3 Home Page

Minerals-400 Examples of _____are gold, silver, copper

What are native elements? Minerals-400 What are native elements? Home Page

More Minerals-100 Scandium has an atomic number of 21 and an atomic weight of 44.9. The number of protons and electrons in Sc is ___.

More Minerals-100 What is 21 protons and 21 electrons? Home Page

More Minerals-200 Scandium has an atomic number of 21 and an atomic weight of 44.9. The number of neutrons in Sc is ____

More Minerals-200 What is 24 neutrons? Home Page

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More Minerals-300 This solution is a hot mixture of water and dissolved substances, and when it contacts existing minerals, chemical reactions take place to form new minerals.

More Minerals-300 What is a hydrothermal solution? Home Page

Potpourri-200 The substance out of this list that is a mineral: Oxygen diamond sulfuric acid wood

Potpourri-200 What is diamond? Home Page

Potpourri-400 This process causes dissolved substances to be left behind to form minerals after water in lakes or ponds evaporates.

Potpourri-400 What is precipitation? Home Page

Potpourri-300 When carbonates come in contact with HCl, they ___

Potpourri-300 What is fizz? Home Page

Potpourri-500 Halite (NaCl) belongs to the ____mineral group, while gypsum (CaSO4) belongs to the _____mineral group

What are halide and sulfate? Potpourri-500 What are halide and sulfate? Home Page

Potpourri-100 When elements are more stable in a combined form, ____forms

Potpourri-100 What are compounds? Home Page

More Minerals-400 The hardness of a material that cannot be scratched by your fingernail (hardness 2.5) but can be scratched by a penny (hardness 3.5)

More Minerals-400 What is 3? Home Page

Daily Double

More Minerals-500 This type of bond forms when atoms share electrons

More Minerals-500 What is covalent? Home Page