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Rocks and Minerals Jeopardy

Rocks and Minerals Jeopardy. Choose a category. You will be given the answer. You must give the correct question. Click to begin. Choose a point value. Choose a point value. Click here for Final Jeopardy. Mineral Properties. Identifying Minerals. Rock Cycle. Minerals.

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Rocks and Minerals Jeopardy

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  1. Rocks and Minerals Jeopardy Choose a category. You will be given the answer. You must give the correct question. Click to begin.

  2. Choose a point value. Choose a point value. Click here for Final Jeopardy

  3. Mineral Properties Identifying Minerals Rock Cycle Minerals Vocabulary 10 Points 10 Points 10 Points 10 Points 10 Points 20 Points 20 Points 20 Points 20 Points 20 Points 30 Points 30 Points 30 Points 30 Points 30 Points 40 Points 40 Points 40 Points 40 Points 40 Points 50 Points 50 Points 50 Points 50 Points 50 Points

  4. A measure of how easily a mineral can be scratched.

  5. What is hardness?

  6. The tendency of a mineral to split easily along flat surfaces.

  7. What is cleavage?

  8. The way a mineral shines.

  9. What is luster?

  10. The color of a mineral when it is ground to a powder.

  11. What is streak?

  12. A mineral’s streak is not always the same as its _____________.

  13. What is color?

  14. The two words to tell if a mineral shines or not.

  15. What are metallic and non-metallic?

  16. When identifying a mineral that can be scratched with a fingernail, you are testing for this.

  17. What is hardness?

  18. If you scratch a mineral and it has powder, it has this.

  19. What is streak?

  20. If the mineral splits easily along flat surfaces, it has this.

  21. What is cleavage?

  22. the scale used to determine a mineral’s hardness

  23. What is Mohs Hardness Scale?

  24. This type of rock is formed when molten rock from deep below the Earth’s surface cools and hardens.

  25. What is igneous?

  26. This type of rock forms when sand particles of rock, bits of soil and remains of once living things are pressed together and hardened.

  27. What sedimentary rock?

  28. This type of rock is new rock that forms when existing rocks are changed by heat, pressure, or chemicals beneath Earth’s surface.

  29. What is metamorphic?

  30. Igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rock can whether into this.

  31. What is sediment?

  32. These forces can change a rock to a metamorphic rock.

  33. What are heat, pressure, and chemicals?

  34. On the hardness scale, this mineral is the hardest.

  35. What is a diamond?

  36. This is one of the softest minerals on the hardness scale.

  37. What is talc?

  38. If you put an acid on this mineral, it bubbles.

  39. What is calcite?

  40. This mineral is also known as fool’s gold.

  41. What is pyrite?

  42. This cloudy white mineral is harder than steel but softer than a diamond.

  43. What is quartz?

  44. A solid material made up of one or more minerals.

  45. What is a rock?

  46. A nonliving solid material that has a definite chemical make up.

  47. What is a mineral?

  48. Pieces of rock that have been broken by weathering.

  49. What is sediment?

  50. the continuous series of changes that rocks undergo

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