Earth
The study of planet Earth.
What is 'Geology'
Pg 433
These are small solid fragments of rock-like gravel, sand, silt, mud or clay.
What is 'Sediment'
Pg 440
Earth's surface is comprised of 71% of this element.
What is 'water'
Pg 445
This was used, along with water, to simulate the plastic like nature of the asthenosphere of Earth.
What is 'Cornstarch'
Pg 437
Meteorologists (and weather people) use this term for water falling from the sky as rain, snow, sleet or hail.
What is 'Precipitation'
Pg 448
Movement detected deep in the earth that provides scientists a picture of it's inner workings.
What are 'Seismic waves'
Pg 434
This attribute of minerals describes how the surface of the mineral reflects light.
What is 'Luster'
Pg 442
The majority of Earth's freshwater is stored as these (two different but similar things)
What are 'icebergs and glaciers'
Pg 446
When the material created in lab 12.1 was picked up and squished into a ball, it became _______.
What is 'Solid'
Pg 437
Any process that breaks down rocks and creates sediment.
What is 'Weathering'
Pg 451
The outmost layer of Earth's surface, commonly called the crust.
What is the 'Lithosphere'
Pg 435
On the scale of hardness, this is rated as a 10, the hardest mineral, and is made of pure carbon created by immense heat and pressure.
What are 'Diamonds'
Pg 443
This is the largest source of liquid freshwater on Earth.
What is 'groundwater'
Pg 446
Part of the test for lab 12.2 was to show how the hydrologic cycle turns the saltwater of the oceans into this.
What is 'Fresh water'
Pg 449
These form when water erosion occurs in caves and leaves the minerals behand as they drip down.
What are 'Stalactites'
Pg 458
This is the layer of Earth below the crust (Lithosphere) which scientists have never actually studied directly.
What is the 'Mantle'
Pg 435
Because of the many color patterns it can be found with, this common rock is used for creating decorative items like countertops.
What is 'Quartz'
Pg 441
This is the pattern of how water moves around the earth through evaporation, condensation and precipitation.
What is the 'Hydrologic cycle'
Pg 447
To simulate the cooling effect of Earth's upper atmoshpere in lab 12.2, this was used on the pot lid to cause condensation.
What is 'Ice'
Pg 449
These are formed when the water drips down tot he floor leaving the minerals in a form that goes up.
What are 'Stalagmites'
Pg 458
As studied in lab 12.1, this is the layer of the Earth described as plastic rock.
What is 'The Asthenosphere'
Pg 436
Since minerals are not made formed from compounds of mainly carbon and hydrogen, they are considered _______.
What is 'inorganic'
Pg 441
This cycle describes the always changing transitions among the three main rock types between sedimentary, metamorphic and igneous.
What is the 'Rock Cycle'
Pg 445
What does the conclusion of a lab ask you to do when writing your summary of any lab.
What is 'Link to the Text'
Pg Any Lab
This is the evaporation of water from plants.
What is 'Transpiration'
Pg 447