Geosphere Trivia Minerals Rocks

Minerals ANSWER: The four characteristics of all minerals. QUESTION: What is solid, formed in nature, definite chemical makeup, and crystal structure?

Minerals ANSWER: 4 properties that can be used to identify a mineral sample. QUESTION: What are color, streak, luster, cleavage or fracture, density, special properties and hardness?

Minerals ANSWER: The least reliable property for identifying a mineral. QUESTION: What is color?

Minerals ANSWER: Mohs scale is measurement of this mineral property. QUESTION: What is hardness?

Minerals ANSWER: The color of the powder left behind when a mineral is rubbed across an unglazed tile. QUESTION: What is streak?

Minerals ANSWER: The 2 types of luster. QUESTION: What are metallic and nonmetallic?

Minerals ANSWER: The hardness values (numbers) of the minerals that a sample of quartz (7) could scratch. QUESTION: What is 1-7?

Minerals ANSWER: The mineral property that is a measurement of the amount of mass in a given volume. QUESTION: What is density?

Minerals ANSWER: 3 special properties that a mineral could possibly have. QUESTION: What are effervescence, conductivity, radioactivity, fluorescence, twinning and magnetism?

Minerals ANSWER: This determines whether a mineral displays cleavage or fracture. QUESTION: What is the strength of the bonds that hold the atoms together?

Minerals ANSWER: The most common rock-forming mineral group. QUESTION: What are the silicates?

Minerals ANSWER: The 2nd most common rock-forming mineral group. QUESTION: What are the carbonates?

Minerals ANSWER: This mineral group is a combination of a metal and oxygen. QUESTION: What are the oxides?

Minerals ANSWER: 3 ways that a mineral could possibly form within Earth and at the surface. QUESTION: What is water evaporating, organisms form shells or bones, hot water cools, molten rocks cools, heat and pressure cause changes?

Minerals ANSWER: The 3 main uses of minerals. QUESTION: What are art, technology, and industry?

Minerals ANSWER: The mineral used for making glass in windows. QUESTION: What is quartz?

Minerals ANSWER: These are rocks that contain enough of a mineral to be mined for a profit. QUESTION: What is an ore?

Minerals ANSWER: The 2 types of mining. QUESTION: What are surface and deep mining?

Minerals ANSWER: The 3 types of surface mining. QUESTION: What are panning, strip mining and open-pit mining?

Minerals ANSWER: 2 differences between minerals and rocks. QUESTION: What is a mineral has a definite chemical makeup, crystal structure and is inorganic?

Rocks ANSWER: The three types of rocks. QUESTION: What is sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic?

Rocks ANSWER: The type of rock formed at location A. QUESTION: What is an intrusive igneous rock? B A

Rocks ANSWER: The process in which atoms rejoin together differently as a result of heat and pressure breaking the bonds that initially join atoms in minerals. QUESTION: What is recrystallization?

Rocks ANSWER: The mineral that makes igneous rocks lighter in color. QUESTION: What is silica?

Rocks ANSWER: The name of an igneous rock that contains no minerals. QUESTION: What is pumice or obsidian?

Rocks ANSWER: The percentage of Earth’s crust that is made of sedimentary rock. QUESTION: What is 5%?

Rocks ANSWER: The 2 types of igneous rocks. QUESTION: What are intrusive and extrusive?

Rocks ANSWER: The least durable or least weather-resistant rock type. QUESTION: What is sedimentary?

Rocks ANSWER: 2 reasons why a metamorphic rock may be nonfoliated. QUESTION: What is the rock was not exposed to high enough pressure or it is made of only one type of mineral?

Rocks ANSWER: The name and type of rock that is composed of dead wood, bark, leaves, stems and roots. QUESTION: What is coal and sedimentary?

Rocks ANSWER: The carbonate mineral that makes up limestone. QUESTION: What is calcite?

Rocks ANSWER: 3 features found in sedimentary rocks that can provide information about Earth’s past. QUESTION: What are crossbeds, ripples and mud cracks?

Rocks ANSWER: The process in which an existing rock is changed by heat and pressure. QUESTION: What is metamorphism?

Rocks ANSWER: The difference between large and small scale metamorphic changes. QUESTION: What is large scale involves both heat and pressure while small scale only involves heat or pressure?

Rocks ANSWER: The arrangement of minerals in flat or wavy parallel bands. QUESTION: What is foliation?

Rocks ANSWER: The metamorphic rock that slate changes into when exposed to increased temperature and pressure QUESTION: What is phyllite?