Properties of Rocks
When you describe a rock as green, this is the property you are observing.
What is color?
What is the difference between rocks and minerals?
Rocks are many minerals combined whereas minerals are one pure substance.
Phosphate, one Florida's resources, is primarily used for what purpose?
Fertilizer.
This is the process of moving rocks and sediment to a new location.
What is erosion?
This causes the Earth to have day and night.
Earth's rotation.
This type of rock is most likely to contain fossils.
What is sedimentary rock?
Wind is an example of what type of resource?
Possible answers: Wind, water, ice, gravity
Earth's revolution, or orbit, around the sun.
This type of rock can sometimes contain air bubbles.
What is igneous rock?
As natural resources, wind, water, and solar energy all have what in common?
They are all renewable resources.
How is weathering different from erosion?
Weathering breaks rocks apart into sediments; erosion carries sediment to a new location.
This causes the Earth to have seasons.
What is a revolution and tilted axis?
Define "streak color" when testing a mineral.
The fine powder left behind from rubbing a mineral across a white tile shows this.
How does a rock change into a metamorphic rock?
It undergoes excessive heat and pressure.
nonrenewable
Describe how wind can weather AND erode rock.
Wind picks up sediments from the ground, which breaks off smaller pieces of sediment from the larger rock, and then carries (erodes) the sediments to a new location.
Why does the Moon appear to change over the course of a month?
The Moon's position in its orbit around Earth, or its revolution.
Igneous rocks form when this happens.
When liquid rock cools and hardens.
*various answers
The constellation, Hercules, can only be seen in the Northern Hemisphere during the summer months.
Explain: Why can't we see this constellation during the winter months?
Around December 4th, 2021. The Moon takes about a month to go through all of its phases.