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Jeopardy. Hosted by Mr. Mariano. Mineral Anything. Mineral Characteristics. Mineral ID. Mineral Anything. 100. 100. 100. 100. 200. 200. 200. 200. 300. 300. 300. 300. 400. 400. 400. 400. 500. 500. 500. 500. Row 1, Col 1. What is diamond?. The hardest mineral on the
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Row 1, Col 1 What is diamond? The hardest mineral on the Mohs Hardness Scale.
1,2 What is inorganic? A substance that is not alive, never was, and was not made up by once living things.
1,3 What is appearance or color? You cannot rely on this alone to I.D. minerals..
1,4 What is talc? The softest mineral on the Mohs Hardness scale.
2,1 What are large crystals? Type of crystals that form when magma cools slowly.
2,2 What are a crystals? A repeating pattern of atoms.
2,3 What is hardness? This is how easily a mineral can be scratched.
2,4 What is metallic luster? Shines like a metal.
3,1 What is streak? The color of a mineral when it is broken up into a powder.
3,2 What is it not inorganic/man-made? The reason steel is a nonmineral.
3,3 What is luster? Describes how light is reflected from the mineral’s surface.
3,4 What is cleavage? A mineral has this if it can break across a smooth flat surface..
4,1 What is the Mohs Scale? We use this to identify a minerals hardness.
4,2 What is a definite shape? The reason liquids and/or gases are not considered to be minerals.
4,3 What is nonmetallic? Does not shine like a metal.
4,4 What is at least 4000 ? The # of minerals there are.
5,1 What is luster, hardness, streak, density, breakage, special properties, and color/appearance? The steps you follow when identifying a mineral.
5,2 What is from cooled magma, from a solution, and from already formed minerals put under heat and pressure? The three ways minerals can form.
5,3 What is fracture? Minerals that break with rough or jagged edges have this.
5,4 What is naturally occurring, inorganic, solid, definite composition and structure? The five characteristics of a mineral.