Minerals Content by: Pam Mason Template Design by: Mark Geary Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Final Jeopardy

$100 Question from H1 What must a mineral be – liquid, solid, or gas?

$100 Answer from H1 What is... Solid

$200 Question from H1 What is a crystal structure?

$200 Answer from H1 What is… Atoms arranged in a crystal arranged in an orderly and repeated pattern.

$300 Question from H1 What does crystallization mean?

$300 Answer from H1 What is… The process by which atoms form a solid with an orderly, repeating pattern

$400 Question from H1 Minerals cannot be ______ or ______.

$400 Answer from H1 What is…. Living (organic) Or Man-made

$500 Question from H1 Define mineral.

$500 Answer from H1 What is … 1. A solid 2. Naturally occurring – not man-made 3. Inorganic – non living 4. Crystal Structure – repeated pattern of atoms 5. Definite chemical composition – same throughout

$100 Question from H2 This is defined as the color of a mineral’s powder.

$100 Answer from H2 What is… Streak

$200 Question from H2 The way that a mineral’s surface reflects light.

$200 Answer from H2 What is… Luster

$300 Question from H2 When a mineral breaks along a smooth and flat surface it is displaying what?

$300 Answer from H2 What is Cleavage.

$400 Question from H2 Define fracture.

$400 Answer from H2 What is … When a mineral breaks along rough or irregular surfaces.

$500 Question from H2 How can an individual do a hardness test on a rock?

$500 Answer from H2 What is scratch the surface of rock using a hard object such as a nail, finger nail, other rock, etc.

$100 Question from H3 These are deposits of metallic or nonmetallic minerals that can be produced at a profit.

$100 Answer from H3 What are…Ores

$200 Question from H3 What characteristic of a mineral is being shown To the right?

$200 Answer from H3 What is Streak.

$300 Question from H3 Metallic, glassy, earthy, or pearly are words that describe what mineral characteristic?

$300 Answer from H3 What is Luster

$400 Question from H3 The picture to the right is an example of what mineral characteristic?

$400 Answer from H3 What is crystal structure.

$500 Question from H3 The picture to the right is an example of what?

$500 Answer from H3 What is crystallization.

$100 Question from H4 How many characteristics are there to classify minerals?

$100 Answer from H4 What is 5.

$200 Question from H4 Minerals are made up of _______.

$200 Answer from H4 What are elements.

$300 Question from H4 _______are the building blocks of rocks.

$300 Answer from H4 What are minerals.

$400 Question from H4 To decay or break something into smaller parts is a definition for what term?

$400 Answer from H4 What is decompostion.

$500 Question from H4 Process by which rock sediments are removed and transported away by water, wind, or ice.

$500 Answer from H4 What is erosion.

$100 Question from H5 How is a streak test performed?

$100 Answer from H5 What is … by scratching the mineral across a tile of unglazed porcelain

$200 Question from H5 The physical breakdown of rocks into smaller pieces is an example of what type of weathering?

$200 Answer from H5 What is mechanical weathering.

$300 Question from H5 This type of weathering involves reactions with water that decomposes rock into smaller pieces.

$300 Answer from H5 What is chemical weathering.

$400 Question from H5 What are the two main ways crystallization occurs?

$400 Answer from H5 What are crystallization form magma and crystallization from water.

$500 Question from H5 What is the process by which unconsolidated materials are converted into coherent solid rock, as by compaction and cementation?

$500 Answer from H5 What is lithification.

Final Jeopardy Define mineral.

Final Jeopardy Answer What is … 1. A solid 2. Naturally occurring – not man-made 3. Inorganic – non living 4. Crystal Structure – repeated pattern of atoms 5. Definite chemical composition – same throughout