Rocks and Minerals
Dynamic Earth
Earth as a Planet
Observation and Measurement
Random Earth Science
100
Which is NOT an example of a mineral?
Diamond ---
Quartz ---
Sea Salt ---
Window Glass ---
What is Window Glass
A mineral is a naturally occurring, nonliving solid that has a specific chemical makeup and repeating structure.
100
What 2 types of plates are there?
Continental (felsic)
Ocean (Mafic)
100
Name the true shape of earth
Oblate Spheroid
100
What are the 5 Senses
Sight Taste
Hearing (sound)
Smell
Touch
100
What is the tallest mountain on earth?
Mount Everest
200
Cora has two different minerals. What two properties could she test to identify them?
What is Streak Hardness luster or color
200
Name the three plate boundary's
Convergent
Divergent
Transform
200
Does the earth bulge at the equator or poles
Equator
200
What is the formula for density?
Mass divided by Volume
200
What trench is the deepest on earth?
The Marianas Trench
300
You find a rock with pieces of seashells in it. What kind of rock is it?
What is Sedimentary Rock
300
Earth movement that causes major earthquake. (name the plate boundary)
Transform Boundary
300
Where would you weigh the most on earth?
The poles
300
A student measures the weight of a box to be 48 grams with a volume of 24 cm cubed. What is the density of this box?
2g/cm cubed
300
How many degrees do you have to travel to gain or loss 1 hour of time?
What is 15 degrees
400
What process forms Sedimentary Rock?
What is Cementing.
Sedimentary Rock is rock that is formed when sediments are cemented together.
400
Draw a convection cell
400
A hiker ascends a hill at an elevation of 240 feet above sea level, after hiking 12 miles she has reached an elevation of 1200 feet above sea level. Calculate the gradient of the hill she climbed.
Gradient = change in field value / distance
= 1200 - 240 / 12
= 80 ft/mile
400
Turn this number into scientific notation.
512,000,000,000,000
(there are 12 zeros)
5.12 x 1014
400
Why does the earth buldge?
Centrifugal Force (because it spins on its axis)
500
Name the process that can turn granite, an igneous rock, into gneiss, a metamorphic rock.
What is Heating and pressure
500
What two layers of the earth will S waves never travel through?
What is the outer and inner core
500
If its 8pm in Columbus Ohio (longitude 80 degrees west) what time is it in Sydney Australia (longitude 135 degrees East)
11 am
500
What will happen to the movement of a liquid if it is heated up.
It will rise
500
What is the mass of the earth? (In scientific Notation)
5.98 x 1024