1. Ch. 2 Minerals Geojeopardy
Matter
Minerals
Mineral Properties
More Minerals
Potpourri
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2. Matter-100 A substance that cannot be broken down into simpler substances by chemical or physical means

3. Matter-100
What is an element?
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4. Matter-200 On the periodic table, this number is the number of protons in the nucleus of the atom

5. What is the atomic number?
Matter-200
What is the atomic number?
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6. Matter-300 The charges and locations of the three atomic particles

7. Neutron, neutral, nucleus Electron, -, energy levels
Matter-300
Proton, +, nucleus
Neutron, neutral, nucleus
Electron, -, energy levels
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8. 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 ____.

9. Matter-400
What are…
Isotopes
Ions
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10. Mineral Properties-500 2 examples of distinctive properties

11. Mineral Properties-500
What are: feel, how easily they are shaped, magnetic properties, double refraction, fizzing with HCl
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12. Matter-500 _____ compounds are rigid solids with high melting and boiling points and are poor conductors of electricity in their solid states.

13. Matter-500
What is ionic?
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14. Minerals-100 List three of the five requirements for a mineral to be a mineral.

15. Minerals-100
What are: 1)naturally occurring 2)solid substance 3)orderly crystalline structure 4)definite chemical composition 5)generally considered inorganic
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16. Minerals-200 the most common group of minerals; made of the two most abundant minerals in earth’s crust (Oxygen and silicon)

17. Minerals-200
What are silicates?
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18. Minerals-300 The mineral group that contains oxygen and one or more other elements (which are usually metals)

19. Minerals-300
What are oxides?
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20. Minerals-500 List three of the four ways minerals can form.

21. Minerals-500
1)crystallization of magma 2)precipitation 3)pressure and temperature 4)hydrothermal solutions
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22. Mineral Properties-100 On the Moh’s hardness scale, ____is 1 and ____is 10.

23. What is talc and diamond
Mineral Properties-100
What is talc and diamond
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24. Mineral Properties-300 The property of a mineral that is used to describe how light is reflected from the surface of a mineral.

25. Mineral Properties-300
What is luster?
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26. 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.

27. Mineral Properties-400
What is cleavage
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28. Mineral Properties-200 Galena’s density if its volume is 2 cm3 and its mass is 15 g

29. Mineral Properties-200
What is 7.5g/cm3
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30. Minerals-400 Examples of _____are gold, silver, copper

31. What are native elements?
Minerals-400
What are native elements?
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32. More Minerals-100 Scandium has an atomic number of 21 and an atomic weight of The number of protons and electrons in Sc is ___.

33. More Minerals-100 What is 21 protons and 21 electrons?
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34. More Minerals-200 Scandium has an atomic number of 21 and an atomic weight of The number of neutrons in Sc is ____

35. More Minerals-200 What is 24 neutrons?
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36. M

37. M
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38. 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.

39. More Minerals-300 What is a hydrothermal solution?
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40. Potpourri-200 The substance out of this list that is a mineral: Oxygen diamond sulfuric acid wood

41. Potpourri-200
What is diamond?
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42. Potpourri-400 This process causes dissolved substances to be left behind to form minerals after water in lakes or ponds evaporates.

43. Potpourri-400
What is precipitation?
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44. Potpourri-300 When carbonates come in contact with HCl, they ___

45. Potpourri-300
What is fizz?
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46. Potpourri-500 Halite (NaCl) belongs to the ____mineral group, while gypsum (CaSO4) belongs to the _____mineral group

47. What are halide and sulfate?
Potpourri-500
What are halide and sulfate?
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48. Potpourri-100 When elements are more stable in a combined form, ____forms

49. Potpourri-100
What are compounds?
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50. 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)

51. More Minerals-400 What is 3?
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53. Daily Double

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

55. More Minerals-500 What is covalent?
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