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This is small, solid fragments of rock-like gravel, sand, silt, mud, or clay
What is sediment
This sphere is the upper portion of the mantle and crust and is composed mainly of rocks and minerals
What is the lithosphere
What is iron.
These are geologists who study minerals
What are Mineralogists
This is the study of the planet Earth, including its physical structure, composition, history, and the processes that act on it.
What is geology
These are two major processes in which rocks are transformed
What are weathering and erosion
This is the process that moves sediment
What is erosion
Rocks are classified into three major groups based on this
How they are formed.
The sphere is made up of the sum of all water on the planet.
What is the hydrosphere
Where is the magnetic field of Earth generated?
What is the Core.
Minerals are inorganic, which means this
They are made of materials that did not come from living organisms.
These waves, created by earthquakes, vibrate through the Earth and are used by scientists to determine what materials they pass through.
What are seismic
This is the process that breaks down rocks and creates sediment
What is weathering
The major factor affecting a stream's ability to erode land.
What is the speed.
This is the type of rock formed when hot, molten rock cools and becomes solid
What is igneous
This is the second layer of the mantle where pressure and temperature causes the rock to be soft and not completely solid.
What is the asthenosphere
What is pressure freezing.
True or False: Minerals are the building blocks of rocks
True
What is Compositional layers
Two forms of weathering
What are mechanical and chemical
These are curves formed when fast water erodes riverbanks; the faster the water flows, the greater these curves can get.
This is the type of rock that is formed when pressure and chemical reactions cement sand and mud together.
This sphere is directly below the asthenosphere and is made of a stiffer rock that can still flow, although at a much slower pace.
What is the mesosphere
This term, when used in geology, indicates a surface where seismic waves change velocity.
What is discontinuity
Name four of the eight ways mineralogists identify minerals
What are crystaline structure, color, streak, luster, density, hardness, fracture, cleavage
These are the Compositional Layers
What are Core, Mantle, Crust
The main causes of mechanical weathering
What are water, ice, and wind.
Two land features formed when sediments are deposited by water
What are alluvial fans and deltas
This is the type of rock that is formed when other types of rock change because of extreme pressure and temperature.
What is metamorphic
The rock in the asthenosphere and mesosphere is also called this
What is Plastic Rock
A large amount of this flowing in the core generates Earth's magnetic field.
What is electric current
There will be two answers to this question. Each mineral has a definite this and this kind of structure which means that each mineral is unique in its chemical makeup and that chemical makeup is consistent with every crystal of the mineral.
What is definite chemical composition and crystalline structure.
These are the 5 layers that make up the Mechanical Layers of earth.
The chemical reaction between a compound (such as a mineral) and water
What is hydrolysis
Caverns and caves are formed as a result of this type of erosion
What is groundwater erosion