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Museum exhibit on gems and minerals (extra credit assignment!)

I. General cool factoids about minerals 1) What is the definition of mineral? (1 pt)

2) Provide any example of a mineral in the exhibit. (2 pt) name: chemical formula: list all elements (by name) present in the mineral: What does it look like? Describe color and shape.

3) Explain the system the museum uses to classify its minerals. (3 pt)

4) Find a mineral that glows in the dark. (1 pt) name: What color does it glow? 5) Find a mineral that contains a radioactive isotope. (1 pt) name: 6) Explain the process of radioactive decay. (3 pt) 7) Would you classify most of the minerals you see as ionic compounds, covalent

compounds, pure elements, or something else? Explain your thinking. (2 pt)

II. Carbonates 8) What are carbonate minerals? (2 pt)

9) Provide an example of a carbonate mineral. (2 pt) name: chemical formula: list all elements (by name) present in the mineral: What does it look like? Describe color and shape.

10) Carbonate is a (2 pt) a) monotomic cation b) monotomic anion c) polyatomic cation d) polyatomic anion

11) What is the chemical formula of the carbonate ion? Include the charge. (2 pt) 12) If you dare, draw an electron dot structure for the carbonate ion. Remember resonance structures (4 pt)

13) Find the mineral calcite. What is its chemical formula? (1 pt) 14) Have we seen the chemical formula for calcite recently in class? If so, when did it come up? (Bonus: Write a chemical equation for a reaction that yields a product with this chemical formula) (3 pt)

III. Sulfates 15) What are sulfate minerals? (2 pt)

16) Provide an example of a sulfate mineral. (2 pt) name: chemical formula: What does it look like? Describe color and shape. What is the overall charge of this sample? Explain your thinking. 17) Sulfate is a (2 pt) a) monotomic cation b) monotomic anion

c) polyatomic cation d) polyatomic anion

18) What is the chemical formula of the sulfate ion? Include the charge. (2 pt) IV. Sulfides 19) What are sulfide minerals? (2 pt) 20) Provide an example of a sulfide mineral. (2 pt) name: chemical formula: What does it look like? Describe color and shape. 21) Sulfide is a (2 pt) a) monotomic cation b) monotomic anion c) polyatomic cation d) polyatomic anion

22) What is the chemical formula of the sulfide ion? Include the charge. (2 pt) 23) Do sulfides tarnish? (1 pt) V. Gold 24) Is gold an ionic compound, a covalent compound, or a pure element? (1 pt) 25) What is the atomic symbol for gold? How many protons does a gold atom have? How many electrons does it have? (2 pt)

26) Provide 3 reasons that gold has been considered valuable by many cultures. (2 pt)

27) Name one place in the world where gold is or used to be relatively common. (1 pt)

VI. Racking up points 28) Find a sample of beryl that is blue. Why does it have this blue tint? (2 pt)

29) Find a sample of opal. Explain why it has such a striking arrangement of colors. (3 pt)

30) Go to the center of the exhibit, which describes the various patterns in which crystals can be geometrically structured. Choose one of these patterns. (4 pt) Name of pattern: Describe or sketch this pattern:

Give an example of a mineral that has this crystal structure: VII. Chemistry connections in other exhibits Go to another exhibit. (ideas: Climate Change, Meteorites, the movie in the Hall of Biodiversity). Find something there that is directly related to chemistry. Describe what you learned below, making sure to emphasize the chemistry aspects. (3 pt)