Energy Transfer
This is a measure of the percentage of light that a particular surface will reflect.
What is Albedo.
Used to identify a few minerals that have their own characteristics.
What is Color.
What type of rock forms when magma hardens beneath Earth’s surface.
What is Intrusive Igneous Rock.
What type of rock is a dark colored rock that is low in silica?
What is Basalt.
What molten material is on the surface?
What is Lava.
Why does the Earth experience seasons?
What is the Earth's Tilt.
When a mineral breaks apart in an irregular way.
What is Fracture.
Three examples of Sedimentary rock are?
What are limestone, sandstone, and shale.
What is the series of processes that change one type of rock into another type of rock?
What is the Rock Cycle.
What sphere is the carbon cycle located in.
What is all of them.
List the 3 types of energy transfer.
What are radiation, conduction, and convection.
This scale ranks ten minerals from softest to hardest.
What is Hardness Scale.
What is the process in which dissolved minerals crystallize and glue particles of sediment together
What is Cementation.
List two examples of a Metamorphic Rock.
What are Marble and Gneiss.
Which of Earth’s spheres supplied the carbon dioxide in the bottom of Lake Nyos?
What is the geosphere and.... (answers may vary).
List 3 spheres where convection occurs.
What are the atmosphere, geosphere, and hydrosphere.
Color of a mineral’s powder.
What is Streak.
What is Compaction?
What is the process that presses sediment together growing thick layers that build up over millions of years
List the process of forming a Sedimentary Rock in order.
Erosion, Deposition, Compaction, and Cementation.
List the two ways that minerals can form.
What is cooling from magma and lava and crystallization of materials dissolved in water.
Describe how convection works.
What is the process of material warming and starting to rise while material above it cools and begins to sink, starting a circulation.
How light is reflected from a mineral’s surface.
What is Luster.
What type of rock has mineral grains that are arranged randomly?
Nonfoliated Metamorphic Rock
List the three things that geologists look at when trying to identify a rock.
What are Mineral Composition, Texture, and color.
What two processes reduce and increase levels of CO2?
What are Photosynthesis & Respiration.