Rocks and Minerals
Mineral ID
Change
Ignite
Pieces
Weisman
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Final Jeopardy
Minerals -100
• The tendency of a mineral to split easily along
flat surfaces
• ANSWER: Cleavage
Answer
Question
Minerals-200
• In the gold rush of 1849, prospectors
found a yellow mineral that appeared to
be gold, but was harder and more brittle
than gold. What is this mineral that came
to be called “fool’s gold”?
A.Calcite
b. Copper
c. Sulfur
d. Pyrite
• ANSWER: D
Answer
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Minerals -300
1.The color of a mineral’s powder, obtained
by rubbing the mineral on an unglazed tile.
• ANSWER: Streak
Answer
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Minerals-400
1.Why is coal a rock but not a mineral?
• ANSWER: A mineral must be
inorganic
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Minerals -500
What mineral is used to make glass?
ANSWER: Quartz
Answer
Question
Change-100
• Metamorphic rocks with a layered or
banded look are called —
a. foliated
b. unfoliated c. striated
d. evaporated
• ANSWER: A
Answer
Question
Change -200
The kind of metamorphism that created a
metamorphic rock because hot magma was
nearby, which caused the rock to recrystallize
ANSWER: Contact metamorphism, which is
a kind of local metamorphism
Answer
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Change -300
• The kind of metamorphism that can
occur during mountain building
movements, when large areas of rock are
subjected to intense heat and pressure.
• ANSWER: Regional metamorphism
Answer
Question
Change -400
• This is how an igneous rock can become
metamorphic.
• ANSWER: heat and pressure
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Change -500
• The parent rock of marble
• ANSWER: Limestone
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Ignite-100
• Type of igneous rock that cools inside the
Earth
• ANSWER: Intrusive
Answer
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Ignite -200
• Type of igneous rock that cools outside the Earth
• ANSWER: Extrusive
Answer
Question
Ignite -300
• Type of molten rock that is thin, hot, dark in color, and
contains large amounts of iron and magnesium
• ANSWER: Mafic
Answer
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Ignite -400
• Type of molten rock that is thick, slow,
light in color, and contains large amounts
of silica
• ANSWER: Felsic
Answer
Question
Ignite -500
• Explain how a metamorphic rock can
become an igneous rock.
• ANSWER: Molten lava or magma,
cool and harden
Answer
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Pieces -100
• Type of sedimentary rock where shells and
other plants and animal remains are cemented
together
• ANSWER: Organic
Answer
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Pieces -200
• Type of sedimentary rock where sediments are
cemented together.
• ANSWER: Clastic
Answer
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Pieces -300
• Type of sedimentary rock that forms as a
result of water evaporating and minerals
cementing together.
• ANSWER: Chemical
Answer
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Pieces -400
• Explain how a metamorphic rock
becomes sediment and a sedimentary
rock.
• ANSWER: Weathering and erosion,
cementation and compaction
Answer
Question
Pieces -500
• The type of sedimentary rock that can be
either organic or chemical.
• ANSWER: Limestone
Answer
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Weisman -100
The only type of rock that has fossils
ANSWER: Sedimentary
Answer
Question
Weisman -200
• Igneous rock made from felsic magma, contains
vesicules and can float in water due to low density
Conglomerate
Pumice
Scoria
shale
• ANSWER: B
Answer
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Weisman -300
• An igneous rock made from mafic magma and
make up the ocean’s crust
obsidian
granite
gabbro
basalt
• ANSWER: basalt
Answer
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Weisman -400
• Which of the following processes will change a
sedimentary rock into an igneous rock?
a. Melting and crystallization
b. Erosion and deposition
c. Deformation and deposition
d. Faulting and fracturing
• ANSWER: A
Answer
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Weisman -500
Obsidian, pumice, and scoria lack crystals
because —
a. not enough minerals were present where
they formed
b. they cooled too quickly
c. they cooled deep inside Earth
d. they cooled too slowly
ANSWER: B
Answer
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FINAL JEOPARDY
• A mineral that can scratch apatite and can be scratched by
corundum.
a Calcite
b Fluorite
c Topaz
d Talc
• ANSWER:
Answer
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Earth Science SOL
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