1. Geosphere Trivia
Minerals
Rocks

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

15. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

24. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

30. Rocks
ANSWER: 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?

31. 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?

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

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

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

35. 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?

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

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