Transcript Geosphere Trivia 1

• The Earth System
• Minerals
• Rocks
• ANSWER:
A terrarium is a simple, closed one
of these.
• QUESTION:
What is a system?
• ANSWER:
The four open systems that make up the
Earth.
• QUESTION:
What are the atmosphere, hydrosphere,
biosphere, and geosphere?
• ANSWER:
The “sphere” that YOU are a part of.
• QUESTION:
What is the biosphere?
• ANSWER:
Continents, islands, and the seafloor
are all parts of this.
• QUESTION:
What is the geosphere?
• ANSWER:
The two gases that make up 99% of
the Earth’s atmosphere.
• QUESTION:
What are nitrogen and oxygen?
• ANSWER:
The part of the Earth labeled A.
A
• QUESTION:
What is the hydrosphere?
• ANSWER:
The Earth’s layer identified by the
arrow.
• QUESTION:
What is the outer core?
• ANSWER:
The least reliable property for
identifying a mineral.
• QUESTION:
What is color?
• ANSWER:
5 properties used to identify
minerals.
• QUESTION:
What are color, streak, luster,
cleavage or fracture, density, special
properties and hardness?
• ANSWER:
The most common rock-forming
mineral group.
• QUESTION:
What are the silicates?
• ANSWER:
The four characteristics of all
minerals.
• QUESTION:
What is solid, formed in nature,
definite chemical makeup, and
crystal structure?
• ANSWER:
The five ways of mineral formation
within Earth and at the surface.
• QUESTION:
What is water evaporating, organisms
form shells or bones, hot water cools,
molten rocks cools, heat and pressure
cause changes?
• ANSWER:
The 10 minerals of Mohs hardness
scale in order from 1 to 10.
• QUESTION:
What are talc, gypsum, calcite,
fluorite, apatite, feldspar, quartz,
topaz, corundum and diamond?
• ANSWER:
The 4 special properties that
minerals could possibly have.
• QUESTION:
What are effervescence,
radioactivity, fluorescence, and
magnetism ?
• ANSWER:
The number of types of atoms in the
mineral copper and the group in
which it belongs.
• QUESTION:
What is one and the native elements?
• ANSWER:
This determines whether a mineral
displays cleavage or fracture.
• QUESTION:
What is the strength of the bonds
that hold the atoms together?
• ANSWER:
The 6 crystal groups.
• QUESTION:
What are cubic, tetragonal,
hexagonal, monoclinic, triclinic and
orthorhombic?
• ANSWER:
The 3 minerals that make up the
igneous rock granite.
• QUESTION:
What are mica, feldspar and quartz?
• ANSWER:
The 2 most common elements in
Earth’s crust.
• QUESTION:
What are silicon and oxygen?
• ANSWER:
These are rocks that contain enough
of a mineral to be mined for a profit.
• QUESTION:
What is an ore?
• ANSWER:
The amount of mass in a given
volume of a substance.
• QUESTION:
What is density?
• ANSWER:
The 3 main uses of minerals.
• QUESTION:
What are art, technology, and
industry?
• ANSWER:
The number of minerals commonly
found in Earth’s crust.
• QUESTION:
What is 30?
• ANSWER:
The 3 types of surface mining.
• QUESTION:
What are panning, strip mining
and open-pit mining?
• ANSWER:
The mineral used for batteries, fiber
optics and weights.
• QUESTION:
What is galena?
• ANSWER:
The three types of rocks.
• QUESTION:
What is sedimentary, igneous, and
metamorphic?
• ANSWER: The type of rock formed
at location A.
• QUESTION:
What is an intrusive igneous rock?
• ANSWER:
The process in which atoms rejoin
together differently as a result of heat
and pressure breaking the bonds that
initially join atoms in minerals.
• QUESTION:
What is recrystallization?
• ANSWER:
The mineral that makes igneous
rocks lighter in color.
• QUESTION:
What is silica?
• ANSWER:
The name of an igneous rock that
contains no minerals.
• QUESTION:
What is pumice or obsidian?
• ANSWER:
The percentage of Earth’s crust that
is made of sedimentary rock.
• QUESTION:
What is 5%?
• ANSWER:
The 2 types of igneous rocks.
• QUESTION:
What are intrusive and extrusive?
• ANSWER:
The least durable or weatherresistant rock type.
• QUESTION:
What is sedimentary?
• ANSWER:
2 reasons why a metamorphic rock
may be nonfoliated.
• QUESTION:
What is the rock was not exposed to
high enough pressure or it is made of
only one type of mineral?
• ANSWER:
The name and type of rock that is
composed of dead wood, bark, leaves
stems and roots.
• QUESTION:
What is coal and sedimentary?
• ANSWER:
The carbonate mineral that makes
up limestone.
• QUESTION:
What is calcite?
• ANSWER:
3 features found in sedimentary
rocks that can provide information
about Earth’s past.
• QUESTION:
What are crossbeds, ripples and
mud cracks?
• ANSWER:
The process in which an existing
rock is changed by heat and
pressure.
• QUESTION:
What is metamorphism?
• ANSWER:
The difference between large and
small scale metamorphic changes.
• QUESTION:
What is large scale involves both
heat and pressure while small scale
only involves heat or pressure?
• ANSWER:
The arrangement of minerals in flat
or wavy parallel bands.
• QUESTION:
What is foliation?
• ANSWER:
The metamorphic rock that slate
changes into when exposed to
increased temperature and pressur
• QUESTION:
What is phyllite?