Download Rock and Mineral Jeopardy

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Rocks/Ores Miscellaneous
A solid chemical matter formed by nature
What is a mineral?
A person who studies the earth
What is a geologist?
A solid mixture of one or more
different minerals
What is a rock?
A characteristic that can be observed
What is a physical property?
A useful metal found in rocks
What is an ore?
How you tell if a water sample
has salt in it?
What is pour the water into a
dish and let it evaporate,
If there is salt there will be salt crystals left
In the dish
How you know if an unidentified rock
has calcite in it
What is place some acid/vinegar on it,
If it bubbles/fizzes calcite is present
Which one is harder?
Mineral #1 can be scratched by a fingernail and penny
Mineral #2 can be scratched by a penny and a paper clip
What is Mineral # 1 because the
finger nail can scratch
It, and the fingernail is the softest tool
You can’t scratch Rock #1 or Rock #2
with any tools.
Which one is harder?
What is scratch one against the other. The one
Leaving the mark is the harder rock
The rocks you wouldn’t want to
build with and why
What is limestone and marble because
They have calcite in them and calcite
Mixes with the acid in the rain and
Destroys the buildings
On Moh’s Scale the mineral that is
The softest:
The Hardest:
What is talc and diamond?
Describes a mineral when it is shiny
What is luster?
Two ways to test a mineral for hardness
What is use a fingernail, a penny,
A paper clip, or scratch them
against each other
The property being tested by Moh’s Scale
What is hardness?
Leaves a colored mark on a white tile
What is streak?
Metallic ores are found here
What is igneous rock?
Three products made from sulfur
What is paper, paint, medicine, plastic,
dyes, batteries, and fertilizers
Formed by heat and pressure
Name an example
What is metamorphic
marble, gneiss, slate
How sedimentary rock is formed
Example:
What is layers of sand, soil, sediment
Cemented together
Conglomerate, shale, sandstone, limestone
Cooled quickly on the outside of a volcano
Example:
What is extrusive igneous rock
obsidian, basalt
A use for aluminum
What is pots/pans, foil, window
frames, zippers
Hot, molten liquid from the center
of the earth
What is magma?
Intrusive igneous rock
Example:
What is formed on the inside of
a volcano
granite
Because intrusive igneous
rock cools slowly
What is large crystals grow?
Shale changes to ________
Limestone changes to _______
Granite changes to ________
What is slate, marble, and gneiss?