Science Trivia Challenge

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Science Trivia Challenge

• Rocks and Minerals

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Directions/Rules

• 1. Choose a category and point value under one
  of the six categories.
• 2. You will be given the answer, you must
  provide the question.
• 3. If you answer incorrectly or pass, the
  question will go to the next player on the
  opposing team.
• 4. Jeopardy questions come from the test, feel
  free to take notes.
• At the end of the game, the team with the most
  points wins.

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Play Board
Minerals
Rocks
Sample ID
Misc.
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100
Answer a valuable, highly priced mineral
Question What is a gem?
5
200
Answer scale commonly used to determine hardness
Question What is the Mohs scale?
6
300
Answer illustrates how rocks change from one
type of rock to another
Question What is the rock cycle?
7
400
Answer molten rock found below the surface of
the earth
Question What is magma?
8
500
Answer Missouris state rock and mineral
Question What are Mozarkite and galena?
9
100
Answer a naturally formed solid made up of one
or more minerals
Question What is a rock?
10
200
Answer molten rock found on the surface of the
earth
Question What is lava?
11
300
Answer the remains of a once-living thing from
long ago
Question What is a fossil?
12
400
Answer substance in which atoms are arranged in
an orderly pattern
Question What is a crystal?
13
500
Answer rock containing valuable minerals which
may be mined for a profit
Question What is an ore?
14
100
Answer the way in which light is reflected from
the surface of a mineral
Question What is luster?
15
200
Answer the color of a mineral when it is ground
into a powder
Question What is streak?
16
300
Answer the measure of how easily a mineral can
be scratched
Question What is hardness?
17
400
Answer describes the way a mineral breaks
Question What are cleavage and fracture?
18
500
Answer two special properties of some minerals
Question What are carbonates react with acid,
fluorescence, magnetic, and give off radiation?
19
100
Answer made from the remains of plants
Question What is coal?
20
200
Answer rock that forms when molten rock cools
and becomes solid
Question What is igneous rock?
21
300
Answer rock that forms as heat and/or pressure
change
Question What is metamorphic rock?
22
400
Answer rock that forms from loose materials
cemented together
Question What is sedimentary rock?
23
500
Answer type of rock with small or no mineral
particles or grains because of quick cooling
Question What is extrusive igneous rock?
24
100
Answer
Question What is sulfur?
25
200
Answer
Question What is pyrite?
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300
Answer
Question What is a conglomerate?
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400
Answer
Question What is obsidian?
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500
Answer
Question What is mica?
29
100
Answer hardest mineral on the Mohs scale
Question What is diamond?
30
200
Answer the mineral group that makes up 90 of
the rock in Earths crust
Question What are silicates?
31
300
Answer type of igneous rock with large mineral
particles or grains due to slow cooling
Question What is intrusive igneous rock?
32
400
Answer four characteristics of minerals
Question What are 1) solid, 2) forms in nature,
3) crystal structure, 4) definite chemical make-up
33
500
Answer flat or wavy parallel bands of minerals
within rocks
Question What is foliation?