Lets Play Jeopardy The Categories Are Mineral or

Let’s Play Jeopardy!!

The Categories Are

Mineral or Not?

Mineral Formation

Physical Properties

Density

Vocab and Miscellaneous

Mineral or Not? Mineral Formation Physical Properties Density 100 100 200 200 300 300 400 400 500 500 Vocab and Miscellan eous

Coal is not a mineral because it is not

What is: organic?

This type of solution is What are two characterized by water molecules movingof into main salt ideas and out of the cell at thethe cell theory? same rate Daily Double!

What is: mineral?

ice

What is: not a mineral? (not solid at room temperature)

Maintaining conditions Granite, made up of feldspar and quartz. suitable for survival

What is: not a mineral? (Granite is a mixture of two different minerals)

All minerals must be solid at room temperature, inorganic, have a specific chemical composition, have a definite crystalline structure and this.

What is: naturally occurring?

Minerals are made of elements or this.

What is: compounds?

How many The larger the crystalline electrons passthe structure of a mineral, more _______ and space it through a circuit had to grow in. in 1 second?

What is: time?

Daily Double! Minerals can form from cooling ____, a molten substance under the crust of the earth.

What is: magma?

Water that contains so much mineral that it begins to crystallize out is called ____

What is: supersaturated?

Five of the most common elements that form minerals are

What is: (any 5) oxygen, silicon, magnesium, aluminum, iron, calcium, potassium, sulfur?

The way a mineral reflects light.

What is: luster?

If a mineral scratches nothing of hardness greater than four, this is its hardness.

What is: 4?

What of is the Strands DNA; If attractive a mineral breaks along a force contain perfect plane, it is said to between water have this. directions for molecules called? making protein

What is: cleavage?

Daily Double! When a mineral is dragged along a porcelain plate, it is to test for this property.

What is: streak?

This is the name for a fracture that is curved or clam shaped.

What is: conchoidal?

Daily Double! The ratio of mass to volume is this.

What is: density?

This is the ratio of the density of an object to the density of water at 4 °C.

What is: specific gravity?

These are common units for density.

What are: grams per milliliter (g/m. L), or grams per centimeter 3 cubed (cm )?

To find the volume of an irregularly shaped object, if you know its density and mass, do this.

What is: divide the mass by the density (v=m/D)?

Specific gravity is an excellent measurement for mineral ID because of this.

What is: the density is consistent for minerals because they have specific chemical compositions?

If another student is Minerals that are prized bullying or harassing for their rarity and you will it stop if you beauty. ignore it?

What is: gems?

What is an owl pellet? A mineral that contains substances that are economically useful.

What is: ore?

Daily Double! A Mexican Eatery that sounds like the mineral hardness scale.

What is: Moe’s?

Rocks are made of these.

What is: minerals?

5 of the most common rock -forming minerals

What is: quartz, feldspar, mica, pyroxene, amphibole, olivine, garnet, calcite?

corn

What is: renewable?

Movement of material into and Sunlight and wind out of the cell is balanced

What is: renewable?

Scientist believe the twogold factors that cause cancer are

What is: nonrenewable?

Daily Fossil fuels Double!

What is: nonrenewable?

Uranium for nuclear power

What is: nonrenewable?

Final Jeopardy

Environmental Science

Explain and give an example of how a cost-benefit analysis can yield different results depending on the entity performing it.

What is: If Georgia Power companies vs. the American Lung Association were deciding whether or not it was worth it to spend millions on upgrading their pollution control systems.

Daily Double!